Algas verdes

No less than 3 men and 40 animals were found dead on the beaches of Brittany (France). The identity of the killer is an open secret: green algae. In this investigation, Inès Léraud and Pierre Van Hove recount half a century of silence, with samples that disappear in laboratories, bodies buried without an autopsy, interplay of influences, pressures and a leaden silence. An unprecedented investigation involving whistleblowers, scientists, farmers and politicians, highlighted by the journalist Alfonso Pato in Eldiario.es: "A docu-comic that ends up being a devastating portrait, almost a thriller, of how to proceed of many multinationals in the agri-food sector". The ancient sun-plant-animal balance has been broken. The origin of the ecological disaster is found mainly in nitrate, a superfertilizer that causes the proliferation of algae that generate toxicity in waters and natural environments. In Brittany, intensive agriculture and livestock explain this surplus of nitrogen; a problem that in Spain, with its own idiosyncrasy, has its terrible reflection in the Mar Menor, in Murcia.