PFAS: MPs adopt bill to reduce exposure to “perennial pollutants”, without banning kitchen utensils...
MPs unanimously adopted, at first reading, Thursday April 4, a bill to restrict the manufacturing and sale of products containing “eternal pollutants,” or PFAS....
PFAS: Kitchen utensils excluded by MPs from law aimed at reducing exposure to 'perennial...
Deputies began on Thursday, April 4, the examination of a bill to restrict the manufacturing and sale of products containing “eternal pollutants,” or PFAS,...
PFAS: reducing the population’s exposure to “eternal pollutants”, a bill that is not unanimously...
The deputies begin on Thursday April 4 the examination of a bill to restrict the manufacture and sale of products containing “eternal pollutants”, the...
EDF: Parliament adopts a text protecting the company from “dismemberment” and extending regulated tariffs...
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...
Flood peaks reached in the most affected municipalities of Burgundy
The floods reached their peak, on the night of Tuesday March 2 to Wednesday March 3, in Tonnerre and Chablis, the two most affected...
Risk of flooding: Yonne and Saône-et-Loire still on red alert, the flood wave is...
The departments of Yonne and Saône-et-Loire remain on red alert on Tuesday April 2, according to a Météo-France bulletin, facing the “exceptional” levels of...
Risk of flooding: the departments of Côte-d’Or and Yonne on red alert, that of...
Part of the country remains on alert due to the risk of flooding linked to severe weather. Two departments, Côte-d'Or and Yonne, were placed...
Risk of flooding: Côte-d’Or, Yonne and Indre-et-Loire on red flood alert, one person wanted...
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...
Risk of flooding: Indre-et-Loire remains on red alert, one person wanted in Haute-Vienne
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...
Risk of flooding: Indre-et-Loire and Vienne on red alert, floods affect at least 34...
The maximum state of vigilance remains active in the departments of Vienne and Indre-et-Loire, Sunday March 31, due to a risk of very strong...
Switching to summer time: why the time change is so criticized
Consider moving your clocks and alarm clocks. France will switch to summer time on the night of March 30 to 31: at 2 a.m.,...
The south-east of France on fine particle pollution alert, due to a cloud of...
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...
In Senegal, the oil and gas sector in uncertainty after the election of Bassirou...
2024 promises to be a pivotal year for Senegal. After the surprise election, in the first round, of opponent Bassirou Diomaye Faye to the...
Pandemic prevention: WHO member countries failed to reach international agreement
After two years of arduous discussions, member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) failed to conclude an international agreement on Thursday, March 28,...
Death of an orca at Marineland in Antibes, the second in just five months
Five months after the death of Moana, a 12-year-old male, another orca, Inouk, a 25-year-old male, died at Marineland in Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes), the water...
Pesticides: “60 million consumers” warn about excessively contaminated bagged salads
The majority of packaged salads contain pesticide residues, warns 60 million consumers in an article published Thursday March 28. Of the twenty-six references analyzed...
The repairability index still neglected by many professionals three years after its launch
On Wednesday March 20, the Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Repression (DGCCRF) shared the results of its second wave of control on...
Nuclear: the French army and EDF will collaborate to produce tritium, essential for deterrent...
The Ministry of the Armed Forces announced on Monday March 18 a “collaboration” with EDF in order to use the power of the two...
Storm Monica in Gard: the body of the last missing child has been found,...
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...
Storm Monica: a body recovered in Ardèche identified as the seventh victim of bad weather
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...
Flood alert, waves-submersion: five people dead, two children aged 4 and 13 still missing...
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...
Faced with drought, Zambia cuts electricity
Electricity rationing has started in Zambia. To deal with the consequences of the drought on the country's main dams, the national company Zesco has...
Flood alert, waves-submersion: two children aged 4 and 13 missing in Gard, five bodies...
The death toll from floods in the south of France rose on Monday March 11, reaching five deaths. In Gard, the body of a...
Flood alert, waves-submersion: two children aged 4 and 13 missing in Gard, four bodies...
The death toll from floods in the Gard department rose to four deaths on Monday March 11, with the discovery of the body of...
In Ivory Coast, the Ebrié lagoon asphyxiated by pollution
Tens of thousands of sea carp floating alongside moored boats, amid all kinds of waste, in a putrid smell. It was to this sinister...
Climate: Europe must act much faster to avoid “catastrophic” situations, says EEA
“Europe is the fastest warming continent. » The alert is signed by Leena Ylä-Mononen, the director of the European Environment Agency (EEA) who is...
Flood, waves and submersion alert: several people missing, a “lifeless body” found in Gard
Vigilance is still required on Sunday March 10 due to bad weather associated with Storm Monica, with cumulative precipitation of up to 150 millimeters...
Flood alert, rain and flooding: six people missing in Gard, another in Ardèche
Vigilance is still required on Sunday March 10 due to bad weather associated with storm Monica, with cumulative precipitation of up to 150 millimeters...
After a complaint from L214 for “ill-treatment” of animals, two Morbihan pig farms suspended
The prefect of Morbihan, Pascal Bolot, suspended the activity of two pig farms owned by the same operator, targeted by a complaint from the...
After a record summer and fall, February is the 9th warmest month in a...
Driven by greenhouse gas emissions and the El Niño climate phenomenon, the last three months have been the hottest on record worldwide, with February...
In Tunisia, fruit and vegetable producers lacking water are torn between productivism and permaculture
The oasis of Tozeur, an island of greenery at the gateway to the Sahara, an agricultural bastion in the middle of an arid zone....
“Eternal pollutants”: hundreds of environmental activists entered the Arkema factory site in Pierre-Bénite
Several hundred environmental activists from Exctintion Rebellion and the Youth for Climate collective entered by force, Saturday March 3 afternoon, the site of the...
Plant-based “meat”: vegetarian products will no longer be able to use the butcher lexicon
Steak, escalope, ham, fillet, steak… a new decree published on Tuesday February 27 by the government specifies the list of names reserved for animal...
Storm Louis: warnings lifted for violent winds and rain-flooding; one dead in floods in...
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...
Storm Louis: 90,000 homes without electricity; one dead in floods in Deux-Sèvres
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. Departments...
Traces of pesticides in more than 70% of fruits and almost half of non-organic...
Nearly two thirds of non-organic fruits (73.1%) and almost half of vegetables (45.8%) contained at least one pesticide residue from 2017 to 2021, according...
Louis Depression: twenty-six departments on orange vigilance
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. Twenty-four...
What to Look for in Carbon Capture Systems
If you’ve decided that you want to boost the eco-friendliness of your business and minimize the amount of carbon that your company is generating,...
DPE for housing: Christophe Béchu announces “simplification” and more “reliability” for small areas
Christophe Béchu, the Minister of Ecological Transition, announced it during his vows on January 31. “In mid-February, I will announce a simplification of the...
Greta Thunberg demonstrates in Bordeaux against an oil drilling project near Arcachon
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg marched on Sunday February 11 in Bordeaux in a procession of several thousand demonstrators demanding an end to a project...