Toxic beach kills horse (Straits Times)

SAINT-MICHEL-EN-GREVE (France) – IT SHOULD have been a perfect day for Vincent Petit, finishing up an afternoon gallop on a wide expanse of beach along a pastel-colored bay. Instead, he and his mount were sucked into a hole of noxious black sludge. The horse died within seconds, the rider lost consciousness and a dirty secret on the Brittany coast reverberated across France – decaying green …
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Horse dies, France faces reality of toxic beaches (Newsday)

SAINT-MICHEL-EN-GREVE, France (AP) — It should have been a perfect day for Vincent Petit, finishing up an afternoon gallop on a wide expanse of beach along a pastel-colored bay. Instead, he and his mount were sucked into a hole of noxious black sludge. The horse died within seconds, the rider lost consciousness and a dirty secret on the Brittany coast reverberated across France — decaying green …
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After horse’s death, French pm says algae pollution endangers health on some Brittany beaches (Sun-Sentinel)

SAINT-MICHEL-EN-GREVE, France (AP) — A French government-sponsored report released Thursday says decomposing algae covering some beaches in Brittany represent a serious health risk and gases that can kill within minutes were detected on a beach where a horse died last month.
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