“Mining company Savannah Resources said on Wednesday Portuguese authorities had approved its environmental impact assessment (EIA) for what could become Western Europe’s largest lithium mine, calling the step a ‘major milestone’ for the project,” according to Reuters.
Climate activists pile up 650,000 cigarette butts in Portugal | euronews
“[Andreas Noe, the German activist behind the initiative] stockpiled the cigarette butts at Lisbon’s famous Praça do Comércio. He said that the 650,000 butts were collected in just one week,” according to euronews.