This report was supported by the Pulitzer Center. It originally appeared in Rolling Stone. It is republished here as part of UP' Magazine's partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 selected media outlets to strengthen journalistic coverage of change.
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Amazonia, Equatorial Africa, Siberia, California... The world's forests are going through a dark period in these troubled times of climate change. And suddenly a new term appears on the scene: we talk about big fires, mega-fires. The forest fires that used to punctuate Mediterranean summers seem small, derisory...
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Emmanuel Macron calls on the G7 to "talk" about the fires in the Amazon and to adopt three positions in this regard. Can a G7, disarmed by its divisions, demonetized by its broken promises and delegitimized by its record, save the Amazon? No, it cannot. By promising to save the
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It is the largest seaweed bloom ever recorded, stretching 8,850 kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean. Twenty million tonnes of Sargasso, more than the weight of 200 aircraft carriers, are invading the sea surface; and this mass has been growing steadily since 2011. This unprecedented proliferation
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The Akademik Lomonosov is a ship like no other. It is a floating nuclear power plant, designed by the Russians to supply energy to the northernmost parts of the planet. Currently moored in the port of Murmansk, this ship with two nuclear reactors of 35 MW each will start a
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The heat wave that hit France and parts of Europe last week was, meteorologists say, caused by hot air masses from North Africa. In this region, as in the Middle East, global warming is burning the air to the point of making it unbearable. In a relatively
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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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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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You are ready to go on holiday, your luggage is packed, your rooms are booked; there is only one problem: the government has cancelled your tickets. This is happening in China and tens of millions of Chinese people are being punished because their "social credit score" has been "too high".
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There are still a wide variety of unusual habitats on our planet: earthen houses built on a salt desert on the edge of the Bolivian Altiplano, vegetable gardens between two buildings in Havana, or a scientific base located at the far north of the planet ... Living in the
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Click, like, share: all our digital links produce data. This information, captured and monetized by the major digital platforms, is becoming the black gold - virtual - of the 21st century. Have we all become digital workers? On the occasion of the release of
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Jair Bolsonaro, newly elected and already nicknamed "the Trump of the Tropics", worries scientists around the world. As president of Brazil, he will control nearly two-thirds of the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest. But he has argued that too many
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Nigeria has the largest population and the strongest economy in Africa, but poverty hits the country's countryside hard, where small farmers struggle to make a living. Thanks to Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu and her network of interactive radio stations, these farmers
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"China is poised to become a science and technology superpower," the Washington Post said following the release of the U.S. National Science Board (NSB) science and technology indicators in January 2018. These figures speak for themselves. In 2017, China surpassed for the
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The melting of the Arctic ice is an ecological disaster that global warming is producing more intensely every day. But for some, this climatic catastrophe is a godsend. It opens up new shipping lanes where only a few years ago the ice pack was so thick that it froze.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is about to introduce, for the first time, traditional Chinese medicine into the world pharmacopoeia. This decision comes after several decades of bitter battles between Asian and Western doctors. For many Western doctors, this decision is questionable and will have a major impact.
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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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China has mastered new technologies and is becoming a leader in this field before our very eyes. Big data, facial recognition and predictive algorithms no longer hold any secrets for the Chinese; they have become masters of them. In other countries, the development of new technologies is being done to improve
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Today threatened, damaged, looted or destroyed, four major sites, some of which are classified as UNESCO World Heritage Sites - Palmyra and Aleppo (Syria), Mosul (Iraq) and Leptis Magna (Libya) - are unveiled and reborn in a spectacular immersive production at the Arab World Institute from 10 October.
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