UN warns of record melting glaciers
"The game is already lost for the glaciers," writes the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in its annual report on the state of...
"Le Monde" adopts a Climate Charter
For fifteen years and the creation of the Planet service in 2008, the coverage of issues relating to the environment, the overexploitation of resources...
Worrying report shows how climate change hit Europe in 2022
An unsurprising but edifying report. According to data from the European service Copernicus, Europe was hit hard during the year 2022 by climate change:...
kyiv: a flash in the sky due to a NASA satellite
A flash in the skies of kyiv, which caused a lot of reactions on social networks, was caused by the fall of a NASA...
Ariane 6, key launcher for European space sovereignty
When you see it on the ELA-4 launch pad, specifically built for it, at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, this impressive 62-meter high...
Mastering Physics – Questions & Answers
Mastering Physics is an online learning platform that is designed to help students improve their understanding of physics concepts and master problem-solving skills. Developed...
G7 countries want to accelerate their exit from fossil fuels, without setting a new...
"Accelerate" their "exit" from fossil fuels in all sectors, this is what the energy, climate and environment ministers of the industrialized countries of the...
“Memory of fear”: how our brain protects us
From the poignant discomfort of being alone in a dark alley to the dull anguish one can feel towards an uncertain future, fear takes...
Europe's Juice probe finally hopes to launch to Jupiter
The European mission Juice hopes to achieve its ends. 24 hours after its postponement due to bad weather, the space probe is due to...
Ariane 5: successful launch for the Juice mission to Jupiter
Five, four, three, two, one… The final count of the DDO (director of operations) resounds in the various observation posts of the Guiana Space...
Juice mission to Jupiter successfully lifted off from Kourou base
The flagship mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), Juice (acronym for Jupiter Icy Moons explorer, "the icy moons explorer of Jupiter") took off...
Drought in the Pyrénées-Orientales: four municipalities deprived of drinking water
The inhabitants of four villages located east of Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) are deprived of drinking water from Friday, April 14, learned Agence France-Presse from the...
Can the government really disband Earth Uprisings?
A few days after the violent clashes around the mega-basin project in Sainte-Soline, in the Deux-Sèvres, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced...
Launch of Ariane 5 postponed: "It's infuriating, everything was green"
A quarter of an hour before the launch of the Juice probe to Jupiter, the excitement was at its height and the eyes shone,...
The Juice mission, which targets Jupiter's satellites, ready for takeoff from the Kourou base
The flagship mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), Juice (acronym for Jupiter Icy Moons explorer, "the icy moons explorer of Jupiter") is scheduled...
Air pollution: Ile-de-France residents breathe a little better but their health remains threatened, according...
The number of “pollution” days, where the measures exceeded the regulatory framework, has never been as low as in 2022, Airparif announced on Thursday...
Sainte-Soline: LBD shootings in quad conform to "self-defense", according to IGGN
Two weeks after the mobilization against the mega-basin, the events in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres) continue to raise questions. In a report posted online on Wednesday...
Weather: the English Channel, Seine-Maritime and Pas-de-Calais placed on orange alert for high winds
Due to the arrival in the north of France of storm Noa, the English Channel, Seine-Maritime and Pas-de-Calais have been placed on orange alert...
James-Webb delivers a sumptuous shot of Uranus
It is a sumptuous and rare image that NASA has just unveiled. Taken by the James-Webb space telescope, it shows the planet Uranus, some...
Drought: report urges to "accelerate the transformation" of our agricultural model
France has not gone far from the disaster scenario, in the summer of 2022. In a report commissioned by the government and which will...
Drought: report calls for 'radical change' to avoid future drinking water disasters
A catastrophe narrowly avoided. A report commissioned by the government, which the newspaper Liberation echoed on Saturday April 8, takes stock of the malfunctions...
Supersonic, star-forming black hole discovered by NASA
A 'supermassive' black hole is tearing through space and leaving behind a 200,000 light-year-long trail of stars, according to a groundbreaking discovery announced by...
Sainte-Soline: A report from "Complément d'Enquête" contradicts the official chronology on the violence
“The police and gendarmes only respond to people who are violent. They would never be the first to go out into the streets in...
James-Webb observes the most distant galaxy in the Universe
It was formed in the earliest ages of the Universe, just 320 million years after the Big Bang. The most distant galaxy ever detected...
From the Arctic to the Antarctic, a race to save the memory of the...
Researchers will embark on Tuesday to drill the ice of the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard in a race against time to save centuries of...
France: greenhouse gas emissions down slightly in 2022
Greenhouse gas emissions fell again in France last year, with a more marked decline at the end of the year, a trend that the...
NASA Names First Female Astronaut and First African-American Astronaut for Artemis II Lunar Mission
She is the first female astronaut and the first African-American astronaut ever designated for a lunar mission. Christina Koch, an engineer who holds the...
Will the drought sound the death knell for private swimming pools?
After a winter marked by a historic drought, an extremely low water level, and a summer that promises to be arid, water management raises...
Against the grabbing of water, hundreds of people demonstrated in front of the company...
Faced with global warming and the state of drought affecting France, voices are rising to reflect on the issue of water consumption but also...
Drought: How Wastewater Reuse Works
The summer of 2022, with its context of intense drought, marked a turning point for the reuse of treated wastewater (Reut) in France. Until...
How Macron's progressive water pricing works
Hit the big water consumers in the wallet to make them responsible. Emmanuel Macron said he wanted the generalization of a "progressive and responsible...
Mathis storm: two dead in the Grand-Est; 23 departments on yellow alert for "strong...
Falling trees, a consequence of "strong winds" caused by storm Mathis, caused the death, Friday, March 31, of two men in the Grand-Est. In...
Earth's cousin exoplanet: James-Webb's fabulous discovery
For the first time in history, researchers have managed to detect light coming from an exoplanet close to the Earth, both rocky and relatively...
The government wants to reverse the procedure for banning a contested herbicide
The Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau asked the French Health Security Agency (ANSES) to reconsider its desire to ban the main uses of the...
Climate inaction: what we blame France and Switzerland for
A "historic" first. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) examines on Wednesday the alleged climate inaction of States by examining two cases targeting...
Megabassin de Sainte-Soline: associations call for rallies Thursday in front of the prefectures
The violent clashes that occurred during the mobilization against the mega-basin of Sainte-Soline, in Deux-Sèvres, on Saturday March 25, continue to arouse controversy and...
Patents in Europe: record for France, still far behind Germany
With 10,900 patent applications filed in 2022 with the European Patent Office (EPO), France marks a new record in its history. It thereby confirms...
Why Hurricane Freddy could redefine fundamental basics of meteorology
Hurricane Freddy may be remembered as the longest surviving one. It's up to scientists to decide, the world's leading expert on weather extremes told...
Drought: The Government's Water Plan
The government's plan to improve water management, a resource threatened by droughts and global warming, will be presented this Thursday, according to the Minister...
Megabasins: the prosecution confirms that an injured protester in Sainte-Soline is between life and...
The diagnosis is reserved for one of the demonstrators injured during the violent clashes which took place on Saturday during a demonstration against agricultural...