Comme une preuve de plus que le capitalisme mondial est, dans son genre, extrêmement logique et efficace, des centaines de milliers de conteneurs d’expédition complètement vides sont transportés sur les océans, au beau milieu de la pandémie de Covid-19. Envoyer des cargos à travers le monde lorsqu’ils sont pleins est
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Le gouvernement français et l’écologie ne semblent pas faire bon ménage en ce moment. Après avoir été coiffé d’un bonnet d’âne par la Convention citoyenne sur le Climat qui a évalué la portée de la loi climat actuellement en discussion, l’Etat semble vouloir accréditer un projet gazier porté notamment par
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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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La pollution de l’air causée par la combustion de combustibles fossiles comme le charbon et le pétrole a été responsable de 8,7 millions de décès dans le monde en 2018, ce qui représente une proportion stupéfiante d’une personne sur cinq parmi toutes celles qui sont mortes cette année-là. Pour rappel,
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La Cour d’appel de La Haye a statué en faveur de Milieudefensie/Amis de la Terre Pays-Bas et de quatre Nigérians sur la plupart de leurs demandes dans une affaire de pollution pétrolière qui a été intentée contre Shell en 2008. Shell Nigeria, en particulier, est responsable de la pollution pétrolière
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La Cour administrative d’appel de Haute-Garonne a prononcé un jugement qualifié d’historique. Elle a annulé l’extradition d’un ressortissant du Bangladesh en invoquant, pour la première fois, le risque lié à l’extrême pollution de l’air dans son pays d’origine. Avec 9 millions de morts prématurées dans le monde, 800 000 à l’échelle
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Les marques Coca-Cola, PepsiCo et Nestlé sont désignées les plus grands pollueurs plastique au monde pour la troisième année consécutive. C’est le résultat du troisième Brand Audit international du mouvement Break Free From Plastic, de l’association No Plastic In My Sea qui vient de sortir aujourd’hui. Un échec pour ces
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476 000 nouveau-nés seraient morts en 2019 à cause de la pollution de l’air. C’est ce que dénombre le rapport Global Air 2020 qui vient d’être publié. Mais la pollution de l’air ne coûte pas seulement des vies humaines ; elle coûte une fortune : uniquement pour l’Europe, l’addition s’établirait à plus de
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On May 29th, the tank of a Russian mining group installed on the frozen ground of Arctic Siberia saw its pillars break, releasing 21,000 tons of diesel into the wilderness. The cause of this ecological disaster is attributed to the melting of the permafrost, the permanently frozen ground.
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According to a study recently published in the medical journal Cardiovascular Research, air pollution is responsible for shortening the lives of people around the world on a much larger scale than wars and other forms of violence, parasitic and vector-borne diseases such as
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L'Oréal, the world leader in cosmetics, prides itself on being a model of social and environmental responsibility. It is even one of its most advanced marketing arguments. However, if we look a little further than the fine words of the firm's communicators, we see that the leader in beauty products
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Ringing telephones, alarms, airplanes, horns, roaring engines... our sound environment is increasingly deafening and silence has become a rare commodity, even an object of covetousness. But what is silence and what do we deprive ourselves of when we no longer have access to it? Environmental issue,
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At last we are there and it's a good surprise! The Joint Joint Committee (CMP) met this Wednesday, January 8, to rule on the anti-waste bill for a circular economy: it reached an agreement unanimously of its members. In the press release of the
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Even against your cat's cockroaches or fleas, insecticides must be used with care, warns the health agency Anses, which publishes an unpublished photograph of the widespread use of household pesticides. In full polemic on the minimum distance between houses and areas of application of plant protection products
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More than ten days after the fire, during the night of 25 to 26 September, at the Lubrizol factory, classified as a Seveso site, the harvesting of fruit and vegetables was banned in around a hundred towns in Normandy and the Hauts-de-France region. Doubts, mistrust, and grey areas remain in the
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According to research conducted in China on large population samples, air pollution causes a "huge" reduction in intelligence. The findings reveal that the damage caused to society by toxic air is much more profound than the well-known impacts on
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With the directive n°2019/904 of 5 June 2019 on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment, known as the SUP (single-use plastics) directive, a new step has been taken in the fight against plastics. The initial observation is overwhelming: the European Union would dump, every year,
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It was not a good idea to find out this Saturday about the government's decision to set the minimum distance between homes and pesticide application areas at 5 or 10 metres. I was in the middle of reading the book "Psychology of bullshit" (1). And now we're swimming in
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This study published by Santé publique France sounded like a warning. French people in general and children in particular have their bodies impregnated with pollutants. Parabens, phthalates, bisphenols, perfluorinated compounds... not to mention all sorts of nanoparticles, have intruded into our daily lives and contaminate us dangerously. What
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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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