We walk around it, we admire and marvel at it; we also exploit it, as if it were there forever. Well, it's not. The European forest in general, and the French forest in particular, are threatened with extinction. Drought aggravated by global warming, appearance of heat-strengthened parasites,
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Twenty years ago nobody would have bet a chipk on the Camargue's continued existence as an exceptional natural environment. The fragile Camargue paradise known the world over for its bulls, its white horse manades, its pink flamingos, was doomed to disappear. This symbol of a wild nature
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The Earth is not only alive, it also creates life. For more than 4 billion years, the Earth has developed a rich biodiversity - an abundance of different living organisms and ecosystems - that can meet all our needs and sustain life. Thanks to biodiversity and
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While the flames are far from being brought under control and the fires continue to ravage the forests in the Amazon (but also in Central Africa, Siberia and Indonesia), there are already a growing number of announcements and initiatives to prepare for the "aftermath". This article by Yann Laurans, Frédéric Amiel and
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Everything can be found in French rivers and streams: from pesticides widely used in agriculture to urban and industrial discharges, from organic compounds left over from our activities to the micropollutants and microparticles in our atmosphere. It's an unsavoury cocktail, a large part of which has not yet been identified and of which we don't know what it is.
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Last July, just over a year ago, the UN Panel on Biodiversity (IPBES) painted a chilling picture of the decline of species and biodiversity across the planet, which threatens the very survival of humanity itself. In the aftermath, President Emmanuel Macron announced that
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On Wednesday 12 June, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe delivered his second general policy statement, which won the confidence of the deputies (363 votes in favour and 163 votes against, 47 abstentions), before submitting it this Thursday 13 June to the senators, who will have to vote in the wake. It
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Thirty-three years after the worst nuclear disaster, the highly contaminated area around the Chernobyl power plant, abandoned by its inhabitants, has been transformed into a unique reserve where elk, deer, wolves and many other wild animals thrive and multiply. Could human presence be more harmful than the
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At the bottom of the water, in a cloud of grey particles, an anchor is ploughing dozens of metres of Posidonia, a hundred thousand year old marine plant, a refuge for dozens of aquatic species. In about thirty seconds, hundreds of years of underwater life go up in smoke. The culprit for this
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World specialists in agroforestry, an ancestral practice associating trees and crops that has been abandoned for several decades in favour of intensive agriculture, are meeting in congress this week to discuss ecological solutions to the agri-food challenge. Until May 23, researchers, farmers, scientists, political and economic decision-makers from some 100 countries are meeting,
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Human activity poses risks that have not yet been properly assessed to these complex communication networks that are the odours of nature. Agricultural processing industries, agricultural activities and livestock breeding produce large quantities of volatile organic compounds that mix with natural sources. To aggravate
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It is a race against time that is being played out in Australia, as in other parts of the world. Coral reefs, shelters of marine biodiversity, are disappearing at a glance. If global temperatures continue to rise to 2°C, half of the world's coral reefs will be destroyed.
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See you Saturday March 30th for Earth Hour - 60 minutes for the planet! And this year, for the first time, the WWF is organizing a live talk show between 8:00 pm and 8:35 pm at the foot of the Eiffel Tower (1). Scientists' alerts are multiplying to highlight the unprecedented decline
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Thought to be so numerous and resilient that they would survive even a global nuclear conflict, insects are nevertheless disappearing everywhere, threatening to take many other species with them in serial collapses. What can be done about it? These issues are not orphaned, and political mobilization to tackle them is essential.
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This is the most massive episode of species extinction since the disappearance of the dinosaurs. More than half of all insects are disappearing worldwide at an accelerated rate; the hecatomb is reaching the staggering figure of 80 % for Europe. When insects disappear, the entire living chain is affected. No more food
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The 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which ended on 29 November in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), was the last before the 2020 Conference. COP 15, to be held in Beijing (China), will be an important milestone in the history of governance.
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This 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.
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The Earth is much more alive than we thought: a rich intraterrestrial ecosystem living in the depths of the Earth has been discovered. It's almost twice the size of all the world's oceans. Despite the extreme heat, lack of light, minute nutrition and pressure
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While biodiversity loss continues, the world has two years to negotiate the future global framework to succeed the current UN "strategic plan" for biodiversity (2011-2020). This framework should make it possible to renew the objectives of the international community and, above all, to set out
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It can be seen all over the world: the buzzing of bee colonies is dying out and hives are collapsing. Bees, these vital pollinators for our food, are disappearing in a terrifying ecological armageddon: 35 % of the world's food production is directly linked to the free service offered by
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