The pandemic is hitting the world. Everybody. Like a scourge of fate. In reality, this crisis is a product of our way of living the world. By extending the limits of our human habitats into the wilderness, we have not only destroyed biodiversity, but have also entered into a new era.
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What if we had found "the cheapest and most ingenious way to combat the global warming that is impacting forests today"? It is in any case the bet of a young American engineer, Topher White, who, with the help of his startup RainForest Connection (RFCx) located in
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The whole world is stunned by the images of the giant fires ravaging Australia. Their scale would almost make the fires in California, Russia and even the Amazon almost insignificant compared to the "Monster", the mega fire that is currently raging. The damage caused locally is considerable and still far from being quantified, in particular to
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"The cheetah no longer dances for Europe" appeared in Temps-marranes in autumn 2013: we were shocked by a serious shipwreck of migrants near Lampedusa. And, like the prince's novel of the same name, it sounded like a fatal announcement. Since the tragedies
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Preliminary results of a large study with contributions from 80 heart-breaking scientists. The Mediterranean, cradle of our cultures, landscape of the founding myths of our civilizations, crossroads of three continents, living basin of 500 million human beings, the Mediterranean of Giono, Pagnol, like that of Averroes or of
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At the UN climate summit in New York last September, the prize for the environmental photographer of the year was awarded. The laureates whose works we present here have shown, throughout 2019, a planet that suffers, that suffers, that resists
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The Earth is not only alive, it also creates life. For more than 4 billion years, the Earth has developed a rich biodiversity - an abundance of different living organisms and ecosystems - that can meet all our needs and sustain life. Thanks to biodiversity and
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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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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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