In order to contribute to the information effort on the current coronavirus crisis, UP' offers its readers free access to the latest published articles on this topic. During Covid-19, the climate crisis continues. And it gets worse. The media, all focused on the pandemic, have forgotten it a little, but
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It was 38°C on Saturday in Verkhoyansk, eastern Siberia. Never before seen in June in this weather station known to be the coldest in the northern hemisphere. A record that comes against the backdrop of alarming reports of climate disruption that is accelerating in the Arctic regions. Is it already
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In order to contribute to the information effort on the current coronavirus crisis, UP' offers its readers free access to the latest published articles on this topic. Our era is devoted to new technologies; they occupy our daily lives, create our needs and have become indispensable to us. They have become indispensable to us.
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Freedom regained! headlines. After two and a half months of confinement, little by little, people come out, get together, relive, a little haggard, at the end of this strange period. The health crisis is dissipating, but it is giving way to a crisis.
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There is every indication that the coronavirus that is shaking the world could establish itself as an endemic virus, present for a long time, with seasonal peaks in virulence. In this hypothesis, medical experts fear that there may not be enough vaccine for everyone. According to the scientists, it would be necessary to vaccinate
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This coronavirus will have been the revelation of all possible transgressions. Who would have thought only three months ago that a virus from the end of the world would have been able to lock up half of humanity, stop the economy, empty cities, empty shops, and make it rain - in defiance of all the
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While we were well confined, in fear that a nasty virus would send us ad patres, global warming was quietly continuing its progression. We didn't realize it too much, deprived of the freedom to go outside, but the thermometer showed, in this month of April, some
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Researchers from the École des Hautes Études de la Santé Publique (EHESP) presented an article on their site estimating that just over 60,000 deaths would have been avoided thanks to containment. This work has been widely commented on in the press and has not been published.
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Since its appearance, the coronavirus responsible for Covid-19 has been the subject of an avalanche of scientific studies and research. More than 50,000 articles have already appeared in medical journals in just four months. Whole battalions of scientists, researchers and doctors from all countries are totally focused on the issue.
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All the world's whistle-blowers, the Greta Thunberg, the IPCC experts, the green, yellow or blue activists, the defenders of the Paris Agreement, the greenest of environmentalists, all are just small arms. They are beaten to a pulp. A virus has managed to make this
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While questions remain unanswered about the coronavirus, its nature, dynamics, capacity to spread and even mutate, more is known about the characteristics of the populations first affected. The latest studies confirm that the elderly and vulnerable provide the largest numbers of people
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Across Europe, the weekend of 14 March will mark a turning point in the approach to the coronavirus crisis. States of alert, population confinement, bans on going out, social distancing measures are being announced one after the other. Europe closes shop and Schengen collapses: Germany restores its
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When maps of greenhouse gas emissions in China, before and after the Coronavirus outbreak, were published, some people immediately shouted victory. When traffic stops, when factories stop running, when people are locked in their homes, the air becomes
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The coronavirus epidemic in China and now throughout the world has been adding to the long list of disasters and predictions of disasters that is updated daily over the past few weeks: drought, collapse of biodiversity, food risks, pollution of all kinds... So much news that undermines
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A research team at the University of North Carolina in the United States, led by one of the world's leading virus specialists, Professor Ralph Baric, is racing against time to artificially recreate the Chinese coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 is its scientific name). From DNA
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A strange scene is being repeated in different parts of the world at the moment, in the skyscrapers of business districts, on the top floors of glass towers, or in the quiet and discreet clubs of Wall Street or the City. Scenes worthy of the Shakespearean tragedies the
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The images are impressive: ghost towns deserted by their millions of inhabitants, masked men, convoys of people taken to containment centres, closed borders. The Chinese coronavirus has triggered a fever of anxiety, if not panic. A fever fought with the most effective means
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The Roman Empire lasted five centuries and had a profound effect on our culture and civilization. For a long time it was believed that this Empire, seemingly indestructible, had suffered a long degradation, a decadence, until its end. However, the historians of ancient Rome are no longer wise old men, distinguished Latin scholars
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Doctors, WHO scientists and all public health organizations kept telling us this. We are on the brink of a devastating global pandemic. The question that no one can answer is that of the source of this expected and almost certain disease.
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The whole world is stunned by the images of the giant fires ravaging Australia. Their scale would almost make the fires in California, Russia and even the Amazon almost insignificant compared to the "Monster", the mega fire that is currently raging. The damage caused locally is considerable and still far from being quantified, in particular to
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