Offshore wind: BP and TotalEnergies win historic auction in Germany
British giants BP and French TotalEnergies have emerged victorious from an unprecedented auction process in Germany for the construction of offshore wind farms, agreeing...
Rare metals: the International Energy Agency warns of supply risks for a successful energy...
The supply of metals and minerals necessary for the energy transition, whose demand is exploding, remains a "challenge" with many uncertainties, warned the International...
Summer actions to save water
69% of French people share the fear of running out of water in their town, according to the 2022 barometer "The French and water",...
Yellow, orange, red… What do the colors of Météo-France alerts correspond to?
Vigilance was launched on October 1, 2001. It was created following the destructive Lothar and Martin storms of December 1999. Météo-France takes into account...
Canada: Crawford Lake Becomes Anthropocene Reference Site
Crawford Lake, near Toronto, Canada, was chosen on Tuesday as the global benchmark for the start of the Anthropocene, the new geological epoch characterized...
Another deadly rainy season in Abidjan
After a few days of respite, the rain resumed in Abidjan. A tropical rain, thick and warm, the season of which is customary. The...
Thunderstorms: the true from the false about the behaviors to adopt in case of...
Each year, more than 450,000 lightning strikes on the ground are detected in mainland France by Météo-France, which has recorded an average of 260...
The world had the warmest week ever measured in early July
The week of July 3-9 was the hottest week ever measured globally, the UN meteorological organization said on Monday, after several daily temperature records...
Heat wave: ten departments on orange alert on Tuesday
Météo-France places twenty departments on orange vigilance for heat waves and thunderstorms this Tuesday, July 11, six being placed under both vigilances. Nine departments...
Animal transport: NGOs accuse France, the Netherlands and Ireland of mistreating calves
Calves not yet weaned remained up to forty hours without food: three animal protection NGOs denounce, Tuesday, July 11, the conditions under which these...
A ton of green algae dumped in front of the Finistère prefecture to denounce...
Greenpeace activists dumped, Monday, July 10, nearly a ton of green algae in front of the Finistère prefecture to denounce the chronic pollution of...
Total's project in Uganda a 'disaster' for locals, Human Rights Watch says
The TotalEnergies oil megaproject in Uganda is a "disaster" for the population, "has devastated the livelihoods of thousands of people" and "will contribute to...
Sainte-Soline: the LDH finds the responsibility of the State and a "disproportionate" use of...
The responsibility of the public authorities is "engaged" during the demonstration of March 25 in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres) against the mega-basins, concludes Monday July 10...
Cosmos: unprecedented gravitational waves captured by pulsars
This is a first and it is extremely promising. A few days ago, a large international scientific collaboration involving several groups of researchers including...
Heat wave: four departments placed in orange vigilance, Sunday
The strong heat arrives in the South-East. Forecasters have placed four departments on heatwave orange vigilance for Sunday: Alpes-Maritimes, Isère, Ain and Rhône due...
The robot of these students could come to the aid of humans in danger
On the small table allocated to them, Alphonse Mendy, Achille Tsakas, Antoine Bruxelle, Aymeric Kwan and Adrien Schroeyers, five apprentice engineers in mechatronics (a...
Sunscreen: what is octocrylene, a substance that ANSES wants to ban?
Sunscreen is essential to protect you this summer, but it could be dangerous for the environment. The National Health Security Agency (Anses) has, in...
How are world heat records calculated?
The news over the past few days has been filled with repeated announcements of new global daily heat records. Thus, Tuesday, July 4 was...
Climate: Second Consecutive World Daily Temperature Record
Tuesday was the hottest day ever measured globally, easily beating the record set the day before, according to preliminary measurements on Wednesday from an...
Water management: how to adapt to climate change
Global warming is affecting the availability of water, and the measures taken to stem this decline in the resource must include many technological components....
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