Those who still have doubts about the reality of climate change will be served: this week, France will reach scorching temperatures above 40°C. This is an extremely rare situation at this time of year, which is set to recur more and more frequently. This heatwave comes on top of
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50°C in Paris. This is what the IPCC scientists predict between now and 2050. Violent, long and repeated heat waves that will inevitably cause extensive human damage. Faced with this risk, which presents itself as an emergency, what can be done? Implement mitigation strategies today
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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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Last summer, it was very hot all over the world. We remember the heat waves in France, the giant fires in California, the suffocation of the Australians. But that's nothing compared to what's ahead of us. A study published this week warns us: the waves
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After a first edition in February 2018, the NGO Générations futures published on Thursday, June 6, a new report on pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables consumed in France, based on 13,300 official data produced by the French General Directorate of Repression.
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These cruise ships are giants of the seas, real floating cities with their multi-storey buildings, shopping centres, swimming pools, discos and casinos. Everything to entertain tens of thousands of tourists who have come to catch a glimpse of some of the most beautiful coastal sites in the world. Last week one of these
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The trade war has intensified since Washington raised tariffs on Chinese products in early May. It is now coupled with a technological war: the Trump administration has banned American companies from selling technology to Huawei, the world's second largest smartphone manufacturer, jeopardizing the supply of Chinese products.
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In mid-June 2019, Total La Mède's new biorefinery will start producing biodiesel, i.e. around 650,000 metric tons per year, despite the end of the tax niche for palm-oil-based biofuels voted by the government in December 2018. This "biofuel" is produced at
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The oil group Total has one ambition: "to become the major player in responsible energy"! Notre Affaire à tous, 350.org and Friends of the Earth have compared this stated ambition with the Group's real environmental strategy and are publishing a report entitled "Total" on May 29, 2019,
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Polls and voting estimates had hardly seen it coming: environmentalists have made their mark in the European elections. They are increasing the number of their members in the future European Parliament by 50 %. A strong dynamic, driven by a young vote, which imposes the urgency of the need for a new European Parliament.
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Since March 2018, when Donald Trump decided to increase customs duties on Chinese imports, the world has been watching in disbelief as two superpowers, China and the United States, have been in a feverish rush. Against the backdrop of global leadership; on stage and in the light, a game of arms
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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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Yet this was the first trial, the very first climate justice action at EU level: European and global families against the European authorities in May 2018 for their inaction on climate change. But the EU Court of First Instance ruled that the action, called the "Climate Change Action", was inadmissible.
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Climate change, contrasts between regions of the globe, loss of biodiversity, air and soil pollution, access to drinking water... as much bad news for the planet as the stakes: what if you could equip a ship with the best digital immersion technologies to envisage new scenarios for our planet?
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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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Did you know that? Concrete is responsible for 8% of global CO2 emissions. If it were a country, it would be the world's third largest polluter... To address this issue, a French industrial startup, Materr'up, develops and produces green or eco-responsible concretes. Discovery. Concrete is everywhere: homes, buildings
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On 27 November last, the President of the Republic installed the High Council for the Climate. Composed of twelve scientific, economists, engineers and experts, it is responsible for providing an independent perspective on the Government's climate policy. This Wednesday, May 15, 2019, the decree officialises the
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Ocean ecosystems are in decline. In a new report published at the end of April in the Journal of Marine Sciences of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), marine conservationists and data professionals from IBM reveal new ways in which technology and networks
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With one million species threatened with extinction, nature's decline is unprecedented. This is the conclusion of the Global Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) unveiled at UNESCO Headquarters on 6 May 2019. Alternatives and initiatives
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