On September 27th, the documentary film "L'intelligence des arbres", based on the bestseller by Peter Wohlleen, a German forester, is released in France. It tells us how the tree society is organized. The scientists' discoveries about the exchange of food and information between the trees of a forest show a real mutual help, a real exchange of ideas, a real exchange of information between the trees of a forest.
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Dans une étude publiée le jeudi 7 septembre dans le journal scientifique Climatic Change, par l’ONG américaine Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), des chercheurs ont analysé la contribution des émissions historiques des pays industrialisés et des pays en développement à l’augmentation de la température de la planète. Des résultats selon
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Hurricane Irma would represent a financial cost of 1.2 billion euros of damage to the two islands of the French West Indies and between 20 and 50 billion for Florida. Who will pay? The insurers who regularly defray on the States? But they are too indebted ... So, there are
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Nicolas Hulot, ministre de la Transition écologique et solidaire, a présenté jeudi 6 juillet le Plan climat de la France. Au-delà des annonces qui ont fortement retenu l’attention, comme l’objectif de neutralité carbone d’ici 2050 et la fin des ventes de voitures diesel et essence en 2040, le plan français
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The company is putting pressure on the energy suppliers! In addition to a growing and increasingly connected population and manufacturers demanding a seamless network, suppliers are facing an environmental challenge pushed by governments since COP21. How to produce constant energy for all, without
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Taking the scenario of an average temperature rise of +3°C, an international team of French researchers studied, for the first time, the impact of global warming on air quality in Europe in 2050. Published in Nature Communication, their study shows that European measurements
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Do you know that there is a "clean" nuclear energy, without danger, almost without waste, without risk, without pollution? This "green nuclear" would be thorium. This is not a new thing because this fuel has been known since the end of the 19th century. And yet, this magical energy has never succeeded.
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Alors que les États-Unis vont offrir un marché fragmenté en matière de transition énergétique, puisque certains États fédérés vont rester sur la dynamique de l’Accord de Paris et d’autres choisir une utilisation intensive des énergies fossiles, la possibilité de devenir le leader mondial dans ce secteur technologique se présente pour
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On 1 June 2017, the President of the United States announced his country's withdrawal from the climate agreement sealed in Paris in December 2015 to contain global warming. This decision obviously came as a great surprise. The point of view of Dominique Auverlot, Special Advisor to France Stratégies, helps us understand this bad decision.
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Ice melting is accelerating in Greenland. The massive introduction of freshwater into the Atlantic could cause very severe droughts in the Sahel and a major migration crisis. Two areas that are at odds with each other but are nevertheless linked by global warming: Greenland, an uninhabited icy land, and the Sahel, a tropical zone.
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Hotter summers, houses closer to the trees: fires continue to ravage Mediterranean forests every year, and it will be necessary to change mentalities and behaviour to hope to reverse the trend, say researchers. Is the forest burning more than before? In France, forest fires do not
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The Cook Islands have created one of the largest marine sanctuaries in the world, which will protect a portion of the Pacific Ocean three times the size of France. Last Thursday, the archipelago's parliament passed legislation giving birth to this vast area of 1.9 million square kilometres. The activist
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Our planet is overwhelmed by billions of tons of plastic waste accumulated since the 1950s, a situation that worsens in the absence of effective recycling, according to a study published last Wednesday in the American journal Science Advances. Researchers from the Universities of Georgia and California have determined
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Vous avez entre 15 et 35 ans ? Parce que vous êtes la génération climat, celle qui vivra confrontée au défi du changement climatique qui creuse les inégalités en France et dans le Monde. Parce vous êtes une génération solidaire, déterminée à comprendre les causes d’un climat qui s’emballe et désireuse
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A few weeks ago, at the beginning of June, the annual report on the development of renewable energy in the world (see the report) informed us that, for the first time, the renewable power installed in 2016 had exceeded new fossil fuel production capacity, with 161 GW installed. In total, the
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Since the death of the dinosaurs, life on Earth has never known such deadly pressure. We have indeed entered what scientists call the sixth great extinction. And humans may well be among the victims, according to a recent study. An extinction like this means the loss of one of the world's most important
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L’arrivée du gaz de schiste sur le marché des Etats-Unis a d’abord bouleversé le marché primaire du gaz, puis le marché de la cogénération des centrales électriques. Maintenant le gaz de schiste va bouleverser l’industrie des produits chimiques d’une façon considérable avec des répercussions possibles sur le marché mondial. Ce
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250 swimmers met on the occasion of the Elbe Swimming Relay, the "Elbschwimmstaffel", the largest swimming relay in Germany to date organized for clean water and the environment. The message: "The ocean starts here! Protecting the seas and oceans
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Les scientifiques veulent créer génétiquement des vaches résistant à la chaleur pour survivre aux changements climatiques. L’Institut des sciences de l’alimentation et de l’agriculture de l’Université de Floride a proposé un plan pour rendre les vaches plus résistantes à l’augmentation de la température causée par le réchauffement climatique. La
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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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