Nicolas Hulot, Minister of State, Minister for Ecological and Solidarity Transition, has made the recovery of biodiversity a key issue in the Ministry's political action, on a par with the energy transition, and invites citizens, organizations and territories to take up this challenge in order to
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The small island of Ulva, the pearl of Scotland with pristine beaches, has been bought by five of its six inhabitants who feared it would fall into the hands of tycoons from Russia or the Middle East, a local organisation said Friday. The announcement had made more than one dream. For sale:
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They do not live in hives and do not produce honey, but they are champions in crop pollination: when spring comes, a few thousand solitary bees bred by a startup in Lot-et-Garonne are sent on a mission to boost orchard yields. Not all the bees disappear
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The National Museum of Natural History and the CNRS are sounding the alarm: less than 60% of tawny sparrows in the last 10 years, a third of the skylarks that have disappeared in 15 years... Birds in the French countryside are victims of a "dizzying" decline, which has intensified even more in the last two years, according to new censuses. "The spring
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Not a day goes by without Artificial Intelligence making headlines. We are proud of its prowess but at the same time we fear it, we promote it, but we are also worried about its progress, which could be devastating. This week, two contradictory pieces of information complete the news
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In an apocalyptic thunder of fire and noise, SpaceX has just launched its Falcon Heavy rocket, "the most powerful rocket in the world", on Tuesday, February 6 at 9:50 p.m. French time. This first launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida was a perfect success in all its phases. It is
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Agricultural education, which has more than 450,000 pupils, students, trainees and apprentices, will have to adapt to the changes to come between now and 2030, taking into account the development of "green" professions; and this, despite serious unknowns on the evolution of agriculture. This is what a government study indicates. "Support for
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It is this Thursday, December 21, that the verdict of the "Etats généraux de l'alimentation" will fall: the release of pesticides, the law on trade negotiations and the financing of agricultural investments. These decisions are eagerly awaited by farmers, industrialists, distributors and environmental associations, in the expectation of an assessment, some measures of which have already been announced.
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Des jeunes anglais passionnés de bière ont eu une idée originale pour lutter contre le gaspillage alimentaire : pourquoi ne pas utiliser le vieux pain rassis pour brasser de la bière ? Chaque jour, des quantités astronomiques de pain sont jetées partout dans le monde. Les associations humanitaires ne parviennent pas à
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Two years of debate, a frantic NGO campaign and a vote at the end of the suspense: the glyphosate soap opera has put the spotlight on complex and contested decision-making processes in the European Union, which promises to learn from them. Opponents of
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Tencent et Alibaba talonnent désormais Facebook et Amazon en termes de capitalisation boursière : illustration de l’ascension de ces géants technologiques dans une Chine où les smartphones et paiements électroniques sont omniprésents. Champion des jeux vidéo mobiles et opérateur de la populaire messagerie WeChat, Tencent est devenu la semaine
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Le niveau des océans montait en 2014 à une vitesse supérieure de 50% à celle de 1993, la fonte de la calotte glaciaire du Groenland étant désormais à l’origine de 25% de cette hausse, contre 5% il y a 20 ans, selon une étude parue lundi 26 juin. Ces
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The morning of Monday 26th June had started badly for the defenders of bees and the environment. The new Minister of Agriculture, Stéphane Travert, had hinted that he would return to the ban on bee-killing pesticides, a ban that was supported by the President of the Republic and his minister.
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The legalization of cannabis is proceeding apace in the United States. 29 states have already authorized cannabis for therapeutic use and 9 have done so for recreational use. The stakes are economic: a windfall of 70 billion dollars by 2021. Enough to whet many business appetites. They
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Alors que Donald Trump menace de quitter l’accord de Paris et que s’est ouverte lundi 8 mai, à Bonn (Allemagne), la session annuelle des négociations climatiques, le réchauffement de la planète se poursuit, à vitesse accélérée. Selon les données du National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) américain, le premier trimestre de
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La bataille contre les fausses informations, accusées d’avoir contribué à la victoire du républicain Donald Trump, s’intensifie aux États-Unis, avec une pression particulièrement forte sur Facebook, même si Twitter et Google sont également visés. Google et Facebook ont pris des mesures la semaine dernière pour assécher les revenus publicitaires des
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On Friday 21 October, the world's largest sites such as Twitter, Paypal, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Airbnb and leading media outlets such as The Guardian, CNN, the New York Times, the Financial Times and the Boston Globe were the victims of a cyber attack on an unprecedented scale. For specialists
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He will be the first president of the new French Biodiversity Agency. Astrophysicist Hubert Reeves, 84, has officially been appointed by Environment Minister Ségolène Royal to preside over this new structure. The creation of this agency, promised by François Hollande during the first environmental conference in
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Chausser des lunettes connectées, regarder ses cultures, et savoir en quelques secondes si elles sont malades, de quoi elles souffrent et quel soin leur apporter : l’agriculteur de demain sera-t-il un geek accro à internet ? « Ce n’est pas pour demain », reconnaît Pascaline Pierson, responsable de la « digiferme » installée par
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As the G20 meets in China, WWF reminds leaders that now is the time for action. To this end, the NGO is publishing a report presenting 15 major signals that demonstrate that the global energy transition has begun and is irreversible. The aim of the report is to help make the world's energy transition irreversible.
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