It can be seen all over the world: the buzzing of bee colonies is dying out and hives are collapsing. Bees, these vital pollinators for our food, are disappearing in a terrifying ecological armageddon: 35 % of the world's food production is directly linked to the free service offered by
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The document was for internal use, but the Euractiv site has just published its contents. It is a confidential note from BusinessEurope, the organisation headed by Pierre Gattaz, which federates the major European employers' associations. The note of this European Medef unveils its strategy in the negotiations with the European Union on
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Confidential documents from Shell and Exxon dating back to the 1980s were recently updated and analysed by a Stanford University researcher, Benjamin Franta. Reading these documents is chilling. The tankers describe in black and white, and in detail, the
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The research consortium Alliance NaturALL Bottle welcomes a newcomer: the American giant PepsiCo Inc. (Pepsi-Cola, Tropicana, Lipton, Ice Tea, ...) Objective: to advance the creation of bio-sourced 100% packaging to reduce the carbon footprint. Will this new alliance help eradicate the 8 million tons of plastic found in every
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The most important thing that came out of the last G7 summit in Canada was Donald Trump's stunt of slamming the door in the face of his allies. What was less noticed was the disagreement over a subject on which the scientific community
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Despite plans to halve pesticide consumption, France, Europe's biggest consumer, has further increased its consumption between 2011 and 2016, from 56,000 to 66,000 tonnes, according to Eurostat. And this at a time of growing concern about the risks to human health and the
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After the approval of the European Union, it is now the turn of the American justice system to validate the marriage between two giants: the American pesticides and seeds giant Monsanto and the German chemicals conglomerate Bayer. A union sealed for the astronomical sum of 66 billion dollars. Plant protection products, seeds,
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Alors que les députés choisissent les amendements qui figureront dans la loi Agriculture et Alimentation, projet de loi qui est le fruit des États généraux de l’alimentation, la sortie du glyphosate d’ici 2021 ne sera pas gravée dans la loi. C’était un engagement présidentiel, mais le gouvernement assure que l’herbicide
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Global plastics production has reached 311 million metric tonnes and is expected to continue to grow at around 4 % per year for the foreseeable future. While plastics offer many benefits to society, there is growing awareness of the potential impact of chemical components
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La production de masse de matière plastique a commencé il y a une soixantaine d’années. Dans ce laps de temps, celle-ci s’est considérablement accélérée, générant plus de 8 milliards de tonnes. Une tonne par être vivant sur cette planète ! Le problème, c’est qu’une petite dizaine de pourcent seulement de cette
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C’est peut-être la fin d’une interminable bataille : vendredi 27 avril 2018, les États membres de l’Union européenne ont adopté la proposition de la Commission d’interdire trois néonicotinoïdes (la clothianidine, l’imidaclopride et le thiaméthoxame) à toutes les cultures en plein champ. Ces produits suscitent la controverse depuis leur déploiement dans les années 1990.
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A new April 2018 report by Rainforest Action reveals one of the most serious cases of illegal destruction of tropical forests in Borneo in recent years. Approximately 10,000 hectares of peatland have been illegally destroyed to make way for oil palm plantations,
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Le projet révolutionnaire imaginé par le navigateur Yvan Bourgnon rentre dans une nouvelle phase. Après un an et demi d’études de faisabilité et de recherche de financements, le navigateur-aventurier franco-suisse dévoile une maquette de la version finale d’un navire inédit à la pointe de l’innovation, le MANTA, collecteur de déchets
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We pay more and more attention to our food, we want it to be healthy and nutritious, we are apostles of the organic and local. But no matter how careful we are, we all have a few cans in our cupboard. A can of sardines, peas or
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Parisians rightly put air pollution at the top of their environmental agenda. Indeed, while air quality is improving in Île-de-France and Paris, it remains unsatisfactory throughout the country and too many citizens are still exposed to pollution levels in excess of
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L’acte de manger est à la fois un besoin vital, un facteur de santé mais aussi un réel plaisir : quoi de mieux qu’un bon repas autour d’aliments savoureux, frais et bio ? Or aujourd’hui, une partie de notre alimentation est contaminée par des substances chimiques dont des résidus de
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China has an air pollution problem. Very serious. The Chinese people are suffocating under pollution and serious illnesses can be counted in the millions. A veritable hecatomb against which the government wants to use all the means at its disposal. Among them, the use of the army to plant trees to improve the quality of the air...
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Climate change could release millions of tonnes of mercury trapped in the permafrost. And that's not good news. It could even be catastrophic for human health and ecosystems around the world. According to a study published on February 5th in the journal Geophysical Research
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C’est le New York Times qui l’annonce : « Une officine créée par Volkswagen a payé des chercheurs pour faire respirer des vapeurs de diesel à un groupe de singes, dans le but de prouver leur innocuité. » La controverse a éclaté après que des rapports aient révélé que les constructeurs automobiles allemands
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In the wonderful world of the rich countries, the consumption at all costs, the programmed obsolescence of the least of our devices, our appetite to possess more and more ... hide a shadow that we hide carefully. We produce mountains of waste and don't know what to do with it. The solution so far
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