The prestigious Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company announced on Wednesday 2 October that it was withdrawing aid from the BP oil group in the name of the "climate emergency". A movement that is making its mark all over the world. BP's patronage allowed the RSC, a British theatre company based
PlusGlobal warming is shaping up to be more serious than expected, with the worst-case scenario predicting +7°C in 2100, French scientists warned Tuesday, presenting new and very alarming climate models that will serve as a basis for the IPCC. The UN climate experts will unveil in 2021 their new assessment report on
PlusLeaving for an afternoon of shopping with no cash, no credit card, no checkbook, no smartphone... What's the point? It will be impossible for you to buy anything. But if you are Chinese, your smile will be enough to pay for all your shopping. Your face as a wallet? An innovation that
PlusJust fifty years ago, on July 21, 1969, a quarter of humanity had its eyes on the Moon. All together, all races, ethnic groups, religions combined, holding our breath, incredulous in front of the blurred and jerky images of the television set or raising our eyes towards the star.
PlusLast week in the rock'n'roll world, Mick Jagger, the Rolling Stones' lead singer, was about to undergo heart surgery. At 75, the prince of Rock cancelled the cult band's tour to the amazement of all the fans. "The operation was a success! "said the singer's entourage on Friday April 5th.
PlusAs an important international meeting is being held in Geneva to lay the foundations for peace in space, Star Trek-style boot noises are being heard. Washington accuses Russia and China of an arms race in space. An escalation whose risk
PlusBetween a tomato grown in greenhouses, without much taste but very cheap, and an expensive organic tomato, reddened by the sun in the open ground, more and more fruit and vegetable growers are testing a third way: the guaranteed "zero pesticide residue". With a small label
PlusObesity, undernourishment and climate change are the three facets of the same threat to humanity and must be fought globally, doctors said on 28 January, saying that food multinationals - the Big Food companies - must be regulated in the same way as tobacco companies have been. These three evils "have
PlusFaced with the desertion of States, trapped between their economic constraints, the pressure of industrial lobbies, their lack of ambition in the medium term and their temptation to authoritarian climate denial, the citizens' response is getting into battle order. On a global scale, over the past two or three years, we have seen
PlusThis is Finland. A first is about to be made: a vaccine to protect bees has just been developed by scientists. It would be the first vaccine in the world, with the hope of halting the decline of this insect's populations, and avoid causing a crisis.
PlusIn one to two years, French power plants will no longer know where to store their irradiated fuel The huge pools at La Hague (Manche), where irradiated fuel in French nuclear power plants is cooled, are approaching saturation which could gradually block all French reactors, warns the Institut de Radioprotection et de
PlusIn China, Western pharmaceutical multinationals still have a bright future ahead of them. But beware of the local industry, which no longer wants to confine itself to subcontracting and generics, but is in turn banking on quality and innovation. With a local pharmaceutical market estimated at 106 billion euros
PlusAmerican farmers will be able to use dicamba in their crops. This pesticide, a cousin of glyphosate, is produced by Monsanto-Bayer. Highly controversial, it was the subject of fierce discussions but finally the American authorities have just renewed its authorization. Volatile, it spreads to neighbouring fields and devastates everything, or almost everything,
PlusDirect economic losses due to weather-related disasters over the past 20 years have been 2.5 times higher than in the period 1978-1997, the United Nations said in a report. In the report, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), explains
PlusAs if suffering from heat, droughts, floods and storms were not enough, a new UN report states that climate change is also increasing hunger in the world: in 2017, for the third year, the number of people in chronic hunger
PlusSea level rise, shoreline erosion, rapid urbanization : Bangkok, which is hosting the preparatory meeting for COP-24, the next UN climate conference, from 4 to 9 September, is sinking inexorably and could be partly submerged by 2030. A foretaste of what
PlusAbout 23% of the French are "not comfortable with digital", declaring that they never surf the Internet or with difficulty, according to a CSA study on "illiteracy", digital illiteracy. This rate rises to 58% among people aged 70 and over. This is "a new form of fracture
Plus« De la condamnation à l’ouverture »: les Français se montrent de plus en plus favorables à une autorisation du cannabis, à condition qu’elle soit strictement régulée par l’État, affirme lundi une enquête de l’Ifop* pour Terra Nova et ECHO Citoyen. De là à imaginer des champs de cannabis dans nos campagnes,
PlusDespite plans to halve pesticide consumption, France, Europe's biggest consumer, has further increased its consumption between 2011 and 2016, from 56,000 to 66,000 tonnes, according to Eurostat. And this at a time of growing concern about the risks to human health and the
PlusArtificial intelligence has managed to be better than experienced dermatologists at spotting skin cancers in a series of photos, a team of researchers announced on May 28. The machine is effective in 95 % cases, better than the performance of human doctors.
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