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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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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Someday history will probably judge. Twenty companies, twenty oil and gas companies, more than half of which are state-owned enterprises, hold the sad record of being responsible for 35 % of greenhouse gas emissions alone. For decades, they have contributed to the disruption of the global economy.
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Between Ebola that kills and the flu that knocks us down, there is one thing in common: both diseases, like many others, are caused by an RNA virus. This type of virus is the cause of the world's most common but deadly diseases.
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The disaster will not be for thirty or fifty years from now. It won't be in a century. No, it's for 2030, which is tomorrow. A shocking study has just been published in Nature, by Australian researchers who have been analysing for several years a geological period of intense upheaval, the
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According to research conducted in China on large population samples, air pollution causes a "huge" reduction in intelligence. The findings reveal that the damage caused to society by toxic air is much more profound than the well-known impacts on
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just published its special report on oceans and the cryosphere on 25 September. One hundred and four scientists from thirty-six countries have referenced and deciphered seventy thousand publications; their 900-page report provides an implacable diagnosis of the state of the oceans and the cryosphere.
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Le monde n’est pas suffisamment préparé à la crise climatique qui s’annonce. C’est le constat que dresse une cinquantaine de personnalités réunies sous l’égide des Nations Unies. Si nous ne nous préparons pas plus à l’urgence climatique, nous subirons de plein fouet les effets du dérèglement climatiques parmi lesquels pauvreté,
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Protection of personal data, control over the advertising market, online search or social networks, dominant position in online commerce or control of the market for smartphone applications... Grievances against the digital giants are the source of many investigations, both on the American side and on the European side.
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