Pour la plupart d’entre nous, le sable fait penser aux vacances, aux plages où l’on aime tant rêvasser, aux châteaux fragiles de notre enfance. Mais l’on oublie que le sable, c’est ce qui fait le béton et le verre ; qu’il est la ressource principale des bâtiments, des maisons, des routes,
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National Geographic presents the trailer for "Jane: A Message of Hope," an exceptional documentary about the activist commitment of Dr. Jane Goodall, who for more than 30 years has traveled the world to raise awareness of the importance of preserving our environment. The film will be shown on the following television programs
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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 anthem of our campaigns" (1) won! A bill has just been adopted by the National Assembly to protect the "sounds and smells" of the campaign from complaints of "abnormal neighbourhood disturbance". Thus, the sensory heritage of our French campaigns will be protected. Welcome calves, cows,
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The association Envol Vert and the All4trees community, in partnership with 16 environmental organizations (1) are launching the Zero Footprint Forest Pact for 2020 municipalities. For the municipal elections of 2020, this Pact proposes to the electoral lists to become forest ambassadors, integrating six objectives, accompanied by twenty-two measures
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Chickens, snakes, collective intelligence of ants and bees, concert of whale songs... The 3rd edition of World Animal Intelligence Day will take place on Saturday 1 February 2020 at La Villette. On the programme: amazing information, strategies that help people, creativity, emotion... Because
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One billion animals are believed to have been burned alive in the apocalyptic fires raging in Australia right now. This staggering figure is calculated by Professor Christopher Dickman of the University of Sidney, a leading Australian wildlife expert, author of 16 books and more than 450 scientific papers. He himself
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Et si, pour la première fois en Europe, un fleuve avait la possibilité de s’exprimer et de défendre ses intérêts à travers un système inédit de représentation interspécifique ? Animée par l’écrivain et juriste Camille de Toledo, la commission pour la création d’un parlement de Loire vous invite à suivre
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It's like an SOS launched into the waters of the Loire. A way of taking the river to witness our own destruction. The first hearings of the Parliament of the Loire held on October 19th, in the small Saint Libert chapel in the historic heart of the city, were held in the Loire Valley.
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The Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and the French Agency for Biodiversity (AFB) are co-organizing, on a regular basis (every three months or so) until COP 15, moments to decipher and appropriate international news relating to biodiversity: the "Biodiversity 2020 Platform". What is the objective? To enable stakeholders to
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For a very long time we have considered plant life as a form of life inferior between the mineral and the animal, that of a vegetative state precisely. Plants were the Lumpenproletariat of life, those that organize the interface between the organic and the inorganic, but whose existence would reflect their function of intermediation:
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Réunissant une communauté d’artistes, de botanistes et de philosophes, la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain se fait l’écho des plus récentes recherches scientifiques qui portent sur les arbres un regard renouvelé. Nous les Arbres s’organise autour de plusieurs grands ensembles d’œuvres et laisse entendre la voix de ceux qui ont
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Twenty years ago nobody would have bet a chipk on the Camargue's continued existence as an exceptional natural environment. The fragile Camargue paradise known the world over for its bulls, its white horse manades, its pink flamingos, was doomed to disappear. This symbol of a wild nature
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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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While the flames are far from being brought under control and the fires continue to ravage the forests in the Amazon (but also in Central Africa, Siberia and Indonesia), there are already a growing number of announcements and initiatives to prepare for the "aftermath". This article by Yann Laurans, Frédéric Amiel and
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Les solutions fondées sur la nature (SFN) bénéficient d’une attention politique croissante. Elles feront l’objet d’un axe de travail lors du sommet pour l’action climatique organisé par le secrétaire général des Nations unies (SGNU) de septembre 2019, et sont au cœur de l’Agenda de l’action pour la biodiversité, lancé en
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Last July, just over a year ago, the UN Panel on Biodiversity (IPBES) painted a chilling picture of the decline of species and biodiversity across the planet, which threatens the very survival of humanity itself. In the aftermath, President Emmanuel Macron announced that
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On Wednesday 12 June, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe delivered his second general policy statement, which won the confidence of the deputies (363 votes in favour and 163 votes against, 47 abstentions), before submitting it this Thursday 13 June to the senators, who will have to vote in the wake. It
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In mid-June 2019, Total La Mède's new biorefinery will start producing biodiesel, i.e. around 650,000 metric tons per year, despite the end of the tax niche for palm-oil-based biofuels voted by the government in December 2018. This "biofuel" is produced at
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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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