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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For most of us, sand reminds us of holidays, of beaches where we like to daydream, of the fragile castles of our childhood. But we forget that sand is what makes concrete and glass; that it is the main resource of buildings, houses and roads,
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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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Sea level rise, shoreline erosion, rapid urbanization : Bangkok, which is hosting the preparatory meeting for COP-24, the next UN climate conference, from 4 to 9 September, is sinking inexorably and could be partly submerged by 2030. A foretaste of what
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The links between global warming and geopolitical risks and migration are no longer to be demonstrated. The UN Security Council has just published an alarming study: if nothing is done quickly to mitigate the extreme climate risks in Iraq, the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) may find itself back in a "climate crisis".
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President Trump has announced his intention to create a new force: the United States Space Force. At a time when the conquest of space is in full swing and rockets are rushing through the gates of space, when our society is vitally dependent on satellite networks and when precious resources are being lost.
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Over the past 20 years, the Arctic has lost 1.6 million square kilometres of ice. The summer ice pack could completely disappear by 2030, which would have a decisive impact on the climate. This Tuesday, June 19, marked the beginning of The Way to the Pole, a human adventure and a scientific expedition led by the explorer Sébastien
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The king of the African savannah, the tree of life, the pharmacist tree, the magic tree, the millennium baobab tree, is disappearing. Silently and mysteriously. An international team of researchers is making this tragic observation: the oldest baobabs in Africa are dying. We do not know the causes of
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