The National Museum of Natural History and the CNRS are sounding the alarm: less than 60% of tawny sparrows in the last 10 years, a third of the skylarks that have disappeared in 15 years... Birds in the French countryside are victims of a "dizzying" decline, which has intensified even more in the last two years, according to new censuses. "The spring
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From generation to generation, we grow up in a world where nature is more and more degraded. Can this explain a certain insensitivity to the destruction of biodiversity? A group of city and nature stakeholders, led by the association Conseil international biodiversité et immobilier (International Council on Biodiversity and Real Estate)
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De la détente à la production de bois en passant par de nombreux autres services écosystémiques, les forêts sont l’objet de nombreux enjeux notamment dans un contexte de changements globaux. Ouvrant de nouvelles perspectives pour comprendre l’évolution des peuplements forestiers et prédire leur devenir dans le cadre du changement climatique,
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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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What if we went for a walk through marshes, bogs, lagoons, salt marshes and other wetlands that are known to harbour great biological diversity and richness? Their essential role in the proper functioning of ecosystems, and the provision of services they provide such as combating global warming.
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Bees play a major role in food production around the world. Without them, there is no pollination and therefore no fruit or vegetables. The decline of bee populations looks like a great extinction. The causes are being sought, analysed and some of them are known. Phytosanitary products used in agriculture
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In a world of finite resources, which are already heavily used for our needs, it is essential to assess the potential impact on biodiversity of new human activities, and in particular the technologies that accompany the development of renewable energies. In France, this debate is regularly opened: this was the case, for example, by
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Plus de la moitié de la population humaine habite aujourd’hui en ville. L’exode rural en cours depuis plus d’un siècle maintenant est loin d’être fini puisque des géographes estiment que d’ici 2050, la surface des villes pourrait tripler et accueillir jusqu’à 70 % des habitants de la planète. Mais alors
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"Investigation in troubled waters", "Dilemma in our plates", "Terror on the coast", "Home search on the seaside", these few titles give the "front page" of the web series which features two main characters: Marc, a citizen doubtful about the interest of research and Océane, a Coselmar researcher.
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The biomass of flying insects, which are essential to ecosystems, has decreased by more than 75 % in almost 30 years without scientists being able to determine the cause with certainty. The researchers, who have been conducting their study in protected areas in Germany since 1989, suspect that
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Ever since the city has existed, trees have been part of the city. Trees have always accompanied urban development and structured it. Often, the identity of a city is its trees, of different species depending on the region and climate: plane trees, maple trees, sycamores, etc., line our streets. But if we were to come back
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Large mammals, forests or micro-organisms... climate change heralds uncertain times for animals and plants, the French Academy of Sciences said in a report published on Monday, which reminds us that this biodiversity is necessary for mankind. The global warming observed in the 20th century is already affecting all species of plants and animals," said the French Academy of Sciences in a report published on Monday.
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On September 27th, the documentary film "L'intelligence des arbres", based on the bestseller by Peter Wohlleen, a German forester, is released in France. It tells us how the tree society is organized. The scientists' discoveries about the exchange of food and information between the trees of a forest show a real mutual help, a real exchange of ideas, a real exchange of information between the trees of a forest.
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The Cook Islands have created one of the largest marine sanctuaries in the world, which will protect a portion of the Pacific Ocean three times the size of France. Last Thursday, the archipelago's parliament passed legislation giving birth to this vast area of 1.9 million square kilometres. The activist
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Our planet is overwhelmed by billions of tons of plastic waste accumulated since the 1950s, a situation that worsens in the absence of effective recycling, according to a study published last Wednesday in the American journal Science Advances. Researchers from the Universities of Georgia and California have determined
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Since the death of the dinosaurs, life on Earth has never known such deadly pressure. We have indeed entered what scientists call the sixth great extinction. And humans may well be among the victims, according to a recent study. An extinction like this means the loss of one of the world's most important
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Avis aux jardiniers parisiens ! Les trophées de l’agriculture urbaine récompensent petits et grands potagers de la capitale : Associations, entreprises, start-ups, jardins partagés conseils de quartiers et collectifs toutes les plantations sont invitées à concourir à cette grande compétition, à une seule et unique condition : que le projet
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250 swimmers met on the occasion of the Elbe Swimming Relay, the "Elbschwimmstaffel", the largest swimming relay in Germany to date organized for clean water and the environment. The message: "The ocean starts here! Protecting the seas and oceans
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The call for projects "Vegetable gardens and educational gardens", launched by the Ministry in November 2016 and closed on 1 May 2017, was the subject of more than 10,000 expressions of interest. 1,354 schools were designated as winners of the operation. Discover, all over France,
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Urban agriculture, bio-inspired habitat, eco-neighbourhoods ... how biomimicry can be used in current architectural projects; the bioluminescence of marine animals as a new source of light; how to reconcile industry with ecology and society, can our economic models repair what they have destroyed; what is the "blob"?
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