It is 2019 AD. All of France is occupied by pesticides... All of it? No! Because a village populated by die-hard Frenchmen is still resisting the invader. And life is not going to be easy for the garrisons of polluters from the entrenched camps of manufacturers of products
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The ecological emergency has become a societal fact. A large majority of French people (72 %) say they have become aware of ecological issues in recent months. It is high time. Hence the need for everyone to implement new behaviors, more respectful of the environment there are
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Water is a common good, a natural heritage, one of the most essential, if not the most essential to human life, which must be managed to ensure its sustainability. What is less well known is that access to drinking water is based on a scientific and technical heritage, developed and maintained over the years.
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Jakarta, capital of Indonesia. A teeming megalopolis of ten million people. The city could partially disappear, drowned by rising waters. Already today, it's sinking by 25 cm a year and the northern half of the city is now at or just below sea level.
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Emmanuel Macron calls on the G7 to "talk" about the fires in the Amazon and to adopt three positions in this regard. Can a G7, disarmed by its divisions, demonetized by its broken promises and delegitimized by its record, save the Amazon? No, it cannot. By promising to save the
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Comment réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre d’au moins 40% d’ici 2030 (par rapport à 1990), dans un esprit de justice sociale ? Ce lundi 26 août, 300 000 appels téléphoniques sont lancés dans toute la France pour recruter 150 citoyens censés représenter quasi parfaitement la société
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Le réchauffement dont nous constatons les effets brûlants aujourd’hui est inédit. Au cours des 2 000 dernières années, aucun événement n’est comparable. Jamais les températures mondiales n’avaient augmenté aussi rapidement que maintenant, selon des données publiées mercredi 24 juillet. Un constat alarmant à l’échelle planétaire qui, selon les experts, devrait
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Les solutions fondées sur la nature (SFN) bénéficient d’une attention politique croissante. Elles feront l’objet d’un axe de travail lors du sommet pour l’action climatique organisé par le secrétaire général des Nations unies (SGNU) de septembre 2019, et sont au cœur de l’Agenda de l’action pour la biodiversité, lancé en
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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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A few weeks ago, a conference was held at the Collège de France organized by the Institut Louis Bachelier, bringing together a group of top economists. The first surprise, which is not a surprise at all, was a magnificent graph showing the close link between growth in world gross domestic product and growth in energy consumption since 1990.
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Après l’épisode caniculaire qui a frappé ces dernières semaines l’Europe en général et la France en particulier, doit-on s’attendre à un retour des grandes sécheresses ? Les météorologues nous prédisent une saison estivale des plus chaudes ; les hydrogéologues, qui mesurent l’état des nappes phréatiques et des réserves d’eau françaises, sont
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Three weeks ago, radioactive contamination of the Loire River was detected. "Slight" said the power plant managers. Today, we are worried about the level and temperature of the Loire, we wonder about the heat resistance of the generators, we wonder if the reactors are going to
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According to a report published by the United Nations, the world is increasingly threatened by "climate apartheid". A world where the rich pay to escape the heat and hunger caused by the escalating climate crisis while the rest of humanity suffers. In a
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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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How and where can we get rid of the plastic? To answer that, there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that we can't do without plastic, we're addicted to it. The good news is that there are alternatives and innovations that make it possible to get rid of plastic.
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The heat wave that hit France and parts of Europe last week was, meteorologists say, caused by hot air masses from North Africa. In this region, as in the Middle East, global warming is burning the air to the point of making it unbearable. In a relatively
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Heat records are falling one after the other. It would almost have become a national sport if the consequences were not so severe. According to Météo France, the heat wave that is setting in is "unprecedented" in its precocity and intensity. Dozens of departments have already placed
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Dans la lutte contre les dérèglements climatiques, la France est dans le rouge. Elle ne tient pas ses engagements, elle est en retard sur ses objectifs et en plus, elle donne des leçons aux autres. En attendant, les français suffoquent sous la canicule dont on nous annonce que ce n’est
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Paris is under experiment. The question of urban cooling in the light of the climatic challenges of today and tomorrow is on everyone's mind. And particularly in those of the accelerator of innovative urban projects FAIRE, which is launching three innovative experiments in the capital. Presentations. Since 2017, FAIRE, accelerator
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Seen from a distance, it looks like huge pieces of gum stuck to the rocks. If we get a little closer, we understand that this strange material embedded in the rocks, literally becoming one with them, is plastic. It's thrown back into the oceans and then beaten by the waves, bags and all the
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