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Parliament definitively adopted on Wednesday April 3 a text proposed by the Socialists regarding EDF, combining anti-dismemberment provisions and the extension of regulated electricity prices to small businesses and municipalities

The floods reached their peak, on the night of Tuesday March 2 to Wednesday March 3, in Tonnerre and Chablis, the two most affected municipalities in Yonne, a department still classified on red alert, but they continue to spread downstream , we learned from the authorities

Part of the country remains on alert due to the risk of flooding linked to severe weather

Numerous evacuations took place in Indre-et-Loire and Vienne, due to the severe flooding of the rivers which has occurred since Saturday in the center-west of the country

Gard and Yonne were in turn placed on orange “flood” alert, Monday April 1 at 10 a

Numerous evacuations have taken place or are in progress in Indre-et-Loire and Vienne, due to the severe river flooding which has occurred since Saturday March 30 in the center-west of the country

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The south-east of France was affected, on Saturday March 30, by an episode of fine particle pollution, due to the passage of a cloud of sand from the Sahara, announced the prefectures of the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d region

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After two years of arduous discussions, member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) failed to conclude an international agreement on Thursday, March 28, aimed at better preparing the world for a future pandemic

The majority of packaged salads contain pesticide residues, warns 60 million consumers in an article published Thursday March 28

The weather for the day of this Thursday, March 28, promises to be rough in France, with strong winds on the western side of the country and strong swells in the south, requiring orange wind and wave-submersion vigilance in seven departments, reported Meteo France

Around sixty Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists dressed as clowns entered the TotalEnergies refinery in Donges (Loire-Atlantique) on Saturday March 23 late in the morning to denounce the oil giant's "clowneries", noted journalists from Agence France-Presse (AFP)

On Wednesday March 20, the Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Repression (DGCCRF) shared the results of its second wave of control on the repairability index, a decision-making tool launched at the beginning 2021 in the form of a small colorful label, displayed next to the price of certain electronic devices and household appliances

The body of a twelve-year-old child washed away by a river in the Gard on Saturday evening, during depression Monica, was found on Friday March 15, “downstream” of those of his father and his 4-year-old sister, found previously, announced the public prosecutor of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac

The body recovered in Ardèche on Wednesday is indeed that of a man who went missing in Saint-Martin-de-Valamas during the severe weather of the weekend, the Privas prosecutor's office announced on Thursday March 14, bringing the death toll to seven of storm Monica in France

The death toll from bad weather in the south-east of France rose to five deaths with the discovery, Monday March 11, of the body of an octogenarian in the Hérault River, near his flooded vehicle, announced the prefecture of Hérault and the Béziers public prosecutor's office

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The death toll from floods in the Gard department rose to four deaths on Monday March 11, with the discovery of the body of a man who could be that of the father of the family who had been missing with his two children since Saturday evening, the prefecture announced du Gard

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Vigilance is still required on Sunday March 10 due to bad weather associated with Storm Monica, with cumulative precipitation of up to 150 millimeters in places

With heavy rain expected, four departments in the south-east of France will be placed on orange rain-flood alert on Saturday March 9 from 2 p

With heavy rain expected, three departments in the South-East of France will be placed on orange “rain-flood” alert, Saturday March 9 from 4 p

The prefect of Morbihan, Pascal Bolot, suspended the activity of two pig farms owned by the same operator, targeted by a complaint from the L214 association for “ill-treatment” of animals, the prefecture announced on Friday March 8

Driven by greenhouse gas emissions and the El Niño climate phenomenon, the last three months have been the hottest on record worldwide, with February part of a series of nine successive monthly records, according to Copernicus

Several hundred environmental activists from Exctintion Rebellion and the Youth for Climate collective entered by force, Saturday March 3 afternoon, the site of the chemist Arkema's factory in Pierre-Bénite (Rhône), to denounce pollution in perfluorochemicals (PFAS) – also called “eternal pollutants” – noted an Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalist on site

Steak, escalope, ham, fillet, steak… a new decree published on Tuesday February 27 by the government specifies the list of names reserved for animal products – and therefore prohibited for products based on vegetable proteins

Météo-France has lifted, for Friday February 23, the alerts for violent winds or rain-floods which disrupted the circulation of certain trains on Thursday, but an orange alert for floods remains in Deux-Sèvres, in Vendée, according to the bulletin issued at 6 o'clock

Météo-France has placed twenty-seven departments on orange alert for Thursday February 22 due to Storm Louis, most of them due to violent winds

Météo-France has placed twenty-eight departments on orange alert for Thursday February 22 due to Storm Louis, most of them for violent winds

Météo-France has placed twenty-six departments on orange alert for Thursday February 22 due to depression Louis, most of them due to violent winds

The level of groundwater in mainland France "remains generally satisfactory", but deteriorated "slightly" in January, underlines Tuesday February 13, the Bureau of Geological and Mining Research (BRGM), the public body responsible for their monitoring, in its monthly newsletter

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