The Academy of Technologies recommends dynamic management of biodiversity in land use planning projects. This opinion is at the heart of current events, especially when we see the massive opposition linked to the Grand Ouest airport project, known as the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport project, which is giving rise to lively local and national controversies between
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Pollination is at the heart of nature and its reproductive processes, a kind of free exchange service that is indispensable for plants to survive and adapt. Neonicotinoid pesticides were known to be dangerous to bees, but we now know that they threaten the pollination process. At
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The year 2015 has been marked by events to show the advantages of biomimicry for the industry. The next biodiversity law, which will be discussed in January in the Senate, should strengthen the impetus in this area. Stakes and prospects. "It is not up to nature to produce like our factories, it is up to our
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When, at the end of the 19th century, Ferdinand de Lesseps had the idea of building the Panama Canal to link the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, he had no idea that he would not only create a formidable link between two worlds, but that he would also bring Paradise into being. Read
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Discovering a new communication system in animals is unusual for the scientific world. But it is also very rare to demonstrate that a communication system between males and females derives from sensory circuits initially used by the species in a context of predator avoidance... Yet this is what
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On the occasion of COP 21, the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN), End Ecocide on Earth (EEE), NatureRights and Attac France are joining forces to have land rights recognised in international standards as an innovative solution to the challenges of climate change. The Court of Human Rights of
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How did we get here? This is the nagging question we ask ourselves every time we hear of the disappearance of a species or the depletion of natural resources. Our world in crisis needs an explanation and to retrace the history of man's influence on nature in order to have a vision of it.
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These 23, 26, 27 and 28 ctobre 2015, come and find your roots with the Kogi Elders, these Indians who are one of the last pre-Colombian peoples to preserve an ancestral way of life in complete harmony with their environment in the Sierra Nevada (Colombia). This people is today threatened by the
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The 2015 gold medal of the CNRS, one of the most prestigious French scientific distinctions, was awarded to cell biologist Eric Karsenti, at the initiative of the Tara expedition in charge of mapping the oceans, the public research organization announced Wednesday. "I did not expect to receive this gold medal at all. I
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The scientific community is eagerly awaiting the publication of Edward O. Wilson Half-Earth's book Our Planet's Fight for life, which will appear in early 2016 in the United States. The book details an initiative by réensauvagement (rewilding) to devote half of the Earth's surface to the preservation of biodiversity.
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Urgent action is needed! WWF's Living Planet Oceans Report, published today, sounds the alarm. Critical to food security, fish populations are declining globally to such an extent that some are at risk of collapse. However, the WWF report says
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A mission on participatory sciences has been entrusted by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research to François Houllier, CEO of INRA and President of the National Research Alliance for the Environment (AllEnvi) in order to promote its development. By the end of the year, he will propose to
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The Tanzanian Wildlife Research Institute (TAWARI) has developed a UAV project to protect and guard against elephants in search of food. An innovation that could prevent many animal and farmer deaths and reconcile them to live in peace. At
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With some ifs, we could bottle Paris. Everybody knows the saying. In this case, Paris would not be bottled but would look like the Serengeti Park in Tanzania, with elephants, giraffes and rhinoceroses roaming the site of the current Champs Elysées. A late night delirium one
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An expert report released on Wednesday 26 August by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) states that the three main molecules (clothianidin, thiamethoxam and imidacloprid) of the neonicotinoid family represent "high risks" for bees, even if they are used as simple sprays. At
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Following the presidential decree of 20 July 2015 published in the Journal Officiel, Bruno DAVID has been appointed President of the National Museum of Natural History and will take up his duties on 1 September. The appointment of Bruno David, 60 years old, at the head of the Museum completes the reform of the statutes of the institution.
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As a leading scientific and societal player, a crossroads where research, public authorities, NGOs, businesses and citizens meet, the National Museum of Natural History has for many years developed expertise on biodiversity, which gives it a special place in the study of climate change and which will be fully relevant to the study of the future.
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Invited in recent years for the production of solar energy, roofs are increasingly being used to host biodiversity and produce new wealth, nature in the city, and with it the return of plant and animal life. Legislators are also interested in these vast spaces.
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Terra incognita still exist on our planet. The bottom of the oceans is one of them, and it's a big one. In a special issue of the journal Science published on May 22, an international, multidisciplinary team of researchers has mapped the extraordinary biodiversity of a wide range of marine organisms. From some of the 35
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Doctor bees detecting diseases will be the heroines of the Hypervital exhibition at the Saint-Etienne International Design Biennial, via Susana Soares, designer. Scientists have proven that the classic bees - Apis mellifera - have an extraordinary sense of smell. It is even easy to train bees to
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