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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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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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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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 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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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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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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While the government is working on a separation of EDF's activities to isolate nuclear power from the rest of the group, the question of waste is resurfacing. A major public debate on the management of radioactive materials and waste is being launched today for a period of five months. The issue at stake
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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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Despite all the warnings from scientists, the climate marches, the growing awareness of public opinion, the protests of young and old, the fine speeches of governments and the fine palaver of industrialists, the world continues to walk on its head. The world's energy experts have
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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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Plastic waste is a growing problem: plastics production is set to double over the next decade and, without planning for effective waste management, the social, economic and environmental impact is also expected to increase. We are now faced with plastic pollution of the oceans that
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Between a tomato grown in greenhouses, without much taste but very cheap, and an expensive organic tomato, reddened by the sun in the open ground, more and more fruit and vegetable growers are testing a third way: the guaranteed "zero pesticide residue". With a small label
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As a lawyer and activist, Valérie Cabanes has encountered situations on every continent where the fundamental rights of peoples are affected by damage to their natural environment. She describes some of these experiences, analyzes recent environmental pressures on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and proposes an architecture for the future.
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Pure plagiarism. In literature, it's not very pretty, but in public health, it's very serious. In 2017, the European Union extended the use of glyphosate, the famous herbicide from the firm Monsanto/Bayer, for five years. This authorisation is the result of an expert report that plagiarized the use of glyphosate.
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American farmers will be able to use dicamba in their crops. This pesticide, a cousin of glyphosate, is produced by Monsanto-Bayer. Highly controversial, it was the subject of fierce discussions but finally the American authorities have just renewed its authorization. Volatile, it spreads to neighbouring fields and devastates everything, or almost everything,
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Current recycling technologies are limited for plastic polymers, resulting in either poor quality recycling or high processing costs. But enzymes now offer a glimmer of hope since the discovery in Japan a few years ago of the "Ideonella" bacterium.
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As part of Galeries Lafayette's "GO FOR GOOD, for a more responsible fashion" initiative, the off-studio agency presents a manifesto installation made of shredded plastic: the design thus invests the territory of the revalorization of our waste by presenting a manifesto work of art, "The 7th continent". The designers
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It cannot be said that the Arctic has never accustomed us to lush vegetation. The expanses of ice, the blizzard-swept plains, provide an unfriendly environment for plants. The only plants that can withstand these extreme cold temperatures are usually shrubs of very low growth.
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