Thunderstorms: 33 departments placed on orange alert
Twenty-eight departments in a large western half of the country, from Nouvelle-Aquitaine to Ile-de-France, are still on orange alert for thunderstorms on Sunday September...
Libya: In Derna, at least 11,300 people died in floods, according to the UN
At least 11,300 people have died and 10,100 are missing in the town of Derna alone, in eastern Libya, ravaged almost a week ago...
The new climate skeptics raise the specter of a totalitarian project
Climate skepticism is dead, long live climate skepticism. Since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, the challenge to the scientific consensus around...
Mustafa Suleyman : « L’intelligence artificielle est un tremblement de terre »
Mustafa Suleyman is a figure in artificial intelligence. With a taxi driver father of Syrian origin and an English nurse mother, he spent his...
A Soyuz rocket arrives on the ISS with two Russians and an American on...
A Soyuz rocket with two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut on board docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, a rare work...
In the West Indies, corals under threat of “severe bleaching” and “risk of mortality”
The coral reefs of Guadeloupe, and more broadly of the northern Antilles, have just been placed on maximum alert by the American Oceanic and...
Covid-19: the vaccination campaign brought forward to October 2 due to an increase in...
Faced with an increase in the circulation of the virus responsible for Covid-19, the Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, decided to bring forward the...
Greenhouse gases: France does not meet its objective for 2022
France outside the box. According to the report from the Climate-Energy Observatory, published Thursday September 14, France has not managed to meet its greenhouse...
Ecology: Activists fined after action against private jets
The Bobigny Criminal Court announced on Thursday September 14 the conviction of environmental activists from Attac and Extinction Rebellion, who had blocked access to...
Climate: France reduced its CO2 emissions in 2022 but forests and soils absorbed less...
Where is France in its climate actions? According to the latest version of the Climate-Energy Observatory published Thursday, September 14, the country did not...
World Food Program's funding woes could push '24 million people' to brink of starvation
The World Food Program (WFP) warned on Tuesday (September 12) that the lack of money forcing it to reduce its rations could push 24...
Heat wave: orange vigilance lifted Monday morning, risk of thunderstorms in the West
The late summer heatwave is about to end. After a new episode of hot weather at the start of September, temperatures will begin to drop...
Global warming: Antarctica is racing
Antarctica is warming more than models predicted. This is the sad conclusion of scientists. The rate of warming of the southern continent, twice as...
A ninth planet at the edge of the solar system?
In the role of the ninth planet of the solar system - vacated by Pluto since its demotion to the rank of "dwarf" in...
Sainte-Soline: start of the trial of nine opponents of megabasins in Niort, a demonstration...
The right to demonstrate is at the heart of the trial of union officials and environmental activists tried in criminal court, Friday September 8...
Unprecedented heat for the period causes significant air pollution in Paris
For the first time, "an orange heat wave vigilance has been triggered beyond the summer period, since the establishment of vigilance for this phenomenon...
Allain Bougrain-Dubourg: "The return of the storks is a reconquest! »
This September morning, the president of the LPO (League for the Protection of Birds), Allain Bougrain-Dubourg, has a smile: “It is always exciting to...
Japan successfully launches its new lunar mission
Will the fourth attempt be the one for Japan? After three postponements since the end of August due to unfavorable weather, the Japanese space...
Planting a tree per middle school student, a good idea?
A “generation where every college student will have their own tree”: this is the wish expressed by Emmanuel Macron, Monday, September 4, during his...
Summer 2023 heatwaves “impossible” without climate change
Records boosted by climate change. According to a study by the NGO Climate Central, greenhouse gas emissions made the heat waves that hit the...
Climate and biodiversity, the two legs of the ecological transition
Due to its growing impact on societies, global warming has become central to public debate. If the majority of citizens have not read the...
France: the number of wolves on the rise
The number of wolves present in France has indeed been underestimated. This was denounced by the majority agricultural organizations on July 3, reports Le...
Global warming: 2023 could be the hottest year on record
Summer (June-July-August) saw the highest average global temperatures ever measured, the European observatory Copernicus announced on Wednesday, for which 2023 will probably be the...
Weather: What is the "Omega Lock" Phenomenon?
While the summer of 2023 was the hottest ever recorded in the world, according to the Copernicus Institute, despite sometimes gloomy weather in northern...
Africa calls for a global tax on carbon emissions
The first African Climate Summit ended on Wednesday 6 September in Nairobi with a joint declaration by Heads of State setting out the continent's...
Animal abandonment: SPA deplores "critical situation" due to inflation
The Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA) warns each year of the acceleration of abandonment and the saturation of its shelters. The association...
The largest rhino farm in the world saved by an NGO in South Africa
The largest rhinoceros farm in the world, set up in South Africa by a millionaire with the ambitious project of saving the species from...
Invasive species: UN experts sound the alarm
In nature too, hell is sometimes other people. Invasive alien species, introduced by man, are spreading more and more rapidly in the world, causing...
Heatwave: Summer 2023 is the 4th hottest on record
The summer of 2023, marked by an exceptional heat wave at the end of August, is among the hottest historically measured in France, only...
What is the environmental impact of disposable "puff" e-cigarettes?
Arrived in 2019 in tobacconists, they had made a place for themselves in the windows with their fruity flavors and their eye-catching color. Disposable...
African Climate Summit: a first edition in Kenya to prepare for COP28
African policymakers are kicking off a summit in Kenya on Monday (September 4) aimed at making the continent an emerging renewable energy powerhouse and...
Late heat wave in France: what to expect this week
Back-to-school week in France will be marked by "a remarkable episode of late hot weather" over much of the country, often with over 30°C...
In Kenya, the winning bet of geothermal energy
Elected to lead Kenya a year ago, William Ruto conducts "green diplomacy", regularly speaking out for Africa on issues related to climate change. To...
Weather: The heat, back this weekend, will intensify on Monday
A short-lived lull. While, in recent days, the vests had come out of the closet after a period of intense heat wave, the heat...
Landslide in Savoie: traffic will resume within eight days according to Beaune
On his X account (formerly Twitter) Transport Minister Clément Beaune explained on Thursday August 31 that road traffic on the A43 linking France and...
Toulouse: the incredible move of a 1,400-tonne monument
Monuments move too! The triumphal arch to the glory of the combatants of Haute-Garonne, built between 1923 and 1931 by the architect Léon Jaussely...
Air pollution in the world, the first threat to human health
Air pollution poses a greater risk to global health than smoking or alcohol consumption, and this danger is exacerbated in certain regions of the...
Paleontology: two new types of dinosaurs discovered in Morocco
Fossils are regularly found in Moroccan phosphate mines. Particularly in the basin of Ouled Abdoun located in the province of Khouribga, 160 km south...
What are the "eternal pollutants" found on paper straws?
Per and polyfluoroalkylated substances, "Pfas" for intimates, "eternal pollutants" for the general public. These chemicals, toxic and persistent, do not degrade well in the...
Weather: strong thunderstorms expected, three departments on orange alert
Strong thunderstorms will still be expected on Sunday, with marked showers in the South-East, as far as the Rhône valley and towards the Alps,...