18,500 tonne freighter, carrying thousands of cars, is on fire off the coast of...
Dutch authorities continue Wednesday, July 26, to fight a fire aboard the freighter Fremantle Highway, off the Dutch island of Ameland, in the north...
After deadly fires in Algeria, damage assessment and disaster relief begins
Thousands of hectares of forests and crops destroyed, hundreds of collapsed homes, dozens of victims without water or electricity... The material toll is heavy...
Canadair, helicopters, drones… What aerial means to fight fires in France?
Greece, Italy, Algeria, France… the same fire scenes are repeated. On the ground, firefighters struggle to contain or extinguish the fires, fueled by dry...
Should we fear seeing more sharks on the French coast?
On Saturday July 22, on the beach of Barcarès, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, a blue shark approached bathers, creating panic on the beach, as shown...
A truck, used to fight forest fires, stolen in Lozère
Firefighters had the bad surprise to see that a truck had been stolen on the night of July 26 to 27. The latter was...
July is the hottest month ever recorded on Earth
The United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the European Copernicus Observatory now believe that they have enough data to say that July 2023...
Thunderstorms: 4 departments on orange alert this evening
"A stormy episode is setting up over Spain and moving up towards the Pyrenees", indicates Météo-France on its site in the afternoon of Thursday...
Heat wave: Greece is alarmed, rise expected in the United States
Faced with the still significant heat wave in the Hellenic Peninsula, Greece has decided to maintain the absolute vigilance plan this Saturday, July 22....
Tourism: on the Hérault coast, fragile initiatives to save water
Direct access to the sea, four swimming pools including a balneotherapy course for adults and an aquatic games park... Water is an asset at...
Heatwaves: Mercury still at highest in the Northern Hemisphere, Greece fights fires
The northern hemisphere will still suffer, Thursday, July 20, from extreme heat in several regions, sometimes plagued by violent fires such as in Greece....
Drought: how the "VigiEau" app works
The figure is surprising and worrying: a French person consumes an average of 148 liters of drinking water per day. Drinking represents only 1%...
Heat wave: Météo-France keeps 9 departments on orange alert Thursday
Europe is hit by an unprecedented heat wave. France, and in particular the South, is not spared. While nine departments – Alpes-Maritimes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Var,...
Nuclear safety: the Elysée relaunches the disputed merger of the two control bodies
The Elysee Palace relaunched, on Wednesday July 19, the contested process of merging the two institutions responsible for nuclear safety in France, instructing the...
A third of Ile-de-France residents considered very vulnerable to the heat wave, according to...
Nearly a third of Ile-de-France residents, or 3.7 million people, are considered very vulnerable to high heat due to the urban areas where they...
Bed bugs affect 11% of French households regardless of social background, according to ANSES
They are as big as an apple seed and feast on human blood at night. Bed bugs are said to have infested 11% of...
Heat wave: "not normal temperatures" for Christophe Béchu
Christophe Béchu takes a different position from his colleague Marc Fesneau. When the Minister of Agriculture finds himself in turmoil after his declaration of...
Climate: Persistent Northern Hemisphere Heatwave
Fire in Greece and Canada, ovens in Italy, Spain or the United States, records broken in France: the northern hemisphere is suffocating and burning...
Intense heat waves just beginning, says UN
The heat waves will repeat themselves and become more intense, according to the UN. This warning comes in a summer when the Northern Hemisphere...
Heat wave: heat records in the South, 10 departments on orange vigilance on Wednesday
The heat wave affecting southern Europe this week is moving into southern France. This heat wave episode affects Corsica, several departments of Paca and...
Heat Wave: Some Tips to Cool Your Home
The mercury is climbing and has even broken records in some places in France and Europe. Overwhelming heat, sometimes hard to live with. And...