According to a study recently published in the medical journal Cardiovascular Research, air pollution is responsible for shortening the lives of people around the world on a much larger scale than wars and other forms of violence, parasitic and vector-borne diseases such as
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It is 2019 AD. All of France is occupied by pesticides... All of it? No! Because a village populated by die-hard Frenchmen is still resisting the invader. And life is not going to be easy for the garrisons of polluters from the entrenched camps of manufacturers of products
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Everything can be found in French rivers and streams: from pesticides widely used in agriculture to urban and industrial discharges, from organic compounds left over from our activities to the micropollutants and microparticles in our atmosphere. It's an unsavoury cocktail, a large part of which has not yet been identified and of which we don't know what it is.
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The report just published by INSEE on investment by French companies in the environment is disarming. It does nothing about it. All the planet's lights are on red, whether it be pollution levels, greenhouse gas emissions or the collapse of biodiversity...
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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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These cruise ships are giants of the seas, real floating cities with their multi-storey buildings, shopping centres, swimming pools, discos and casinos. Everything to entertain tens of thousands of tourists who have come to catch a glimpse of some of the most beautiful coastal sites in the world. Last week one of these
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Climate change, contrasts between regions of the globe, loss of biodiversity, air and soil pollution, access to drinking water... as much bad news for the planet as the stakes: what if you could equip a ship with the best digital immersion technologies to envisage new scenarios for our planet?
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The European Parliament has endorsed by a large majority the end in the European Union of single-use plastic products that pollute the oceans from 2021 On 1 January 2021, Europe could be the first continent to ban disposable plastic objects. Cotton buds, straws, swabs
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Trois informations sont publiées quasiment en même temps ces dernières vingt-quatre heures. L’ONU, dans son état de la planète nous annonce qu’un quart des morts et des maladies dans le monde sont causées par les pollutions et les dégâts environnementaux ; une étude d’ampleur réalisée par des chercheurs allemands révèle que
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American farmers will be able to use dicamba in their crops. This pesticide, a cousin of glyphosate, is produced by Monsanto-Bayer. Highly controversial, it was the subject of fierce discussions but finally the American authorities have just renewed its authorization. Volatile, it spreads to neighbouring fields and devastates everything, or almost everything,
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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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La production de masse de matière plastique a commencé il y a une soixantaine d’années. Dans ce laps de temps, celle-ci s’est considérablement accélérée, générant plus de 8 milliards de tonnes. Une tonne par être vivant sur cette planète ! Le problème, c’est qu’une petite dizaine de pourcent seulement de cette
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C’est peut-être la fin d’une interminable bataille : vendredi 27 avril 2018, les États membres de l’Union européenne ont adopté la proposition de la Commission d’interdire trois néonicotinoïdes (la clothianidine, l’imidaclopride et le thiaméthoxame) à toutes les cultures en plein champ. Ces produits suscitent la controverse depuis leur déploiement dans les années 1990.
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The figure is huge. More than 9 out of 10 people on the planet breathe polluted air. This is according to the conclusions of the annual report on the state of the world's air published on Tuesday by the American HEI (Health effects institute). Prolonged exposure to this polluted air has resulted in more than
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According to experts from the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and the Sea, short-distance journeys on French roads will increase by 29% by 2050, leading to an increase in traffic jams and air pollution. The French government is beginning to realise the environmental impact that this increase in traffic will have on the environment.
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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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While the ozone hole tends to close over Antarctica, scientists observe that this is far from being the case at lower latitudes, where sunlight is strongest and billions of people live. In these regions, ozone
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In the wonderful world of the rich countries, the consumption at all costs, the programmed obsolescence of the least of our devices, our appetite to possess more and more ... hide a shadow that we hide carefully. We produce mountains of waste and don't know what to do with it. The solution so far
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Des scientifiques lancent un signal d’alerte : les océans sont en train de suffoquer. Des zones de plus en plus importantes se retrouvent privées d’oxygène. Elles deviennent des « zones mortes » et leur nombre a, depuis les années 50, quadruplé en haute mer et décuplé sur les zones côtières ! Les conséquences
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Vu de ce côté de l’Atlantique, on ne voit de la politique environnementale menée par Donald Trump depuis son accession au pouvoir que le retrait de l’Accord de Paris. L’acte a fait l’effet d’un séisme, il est visible médiatiquement, mais c’est l’arbre qui cache la forêt. Il occulte un travail
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