Luna-25: Russia in the final sprint with India for the South Pole of the...
The Soyuz rocket carrying the Luna-25 mission successfully took off on Friday August 11 from the Vostochny cosmodrome, on the edge of Siberia, near...
What is Copernicus, the European program that examines the planet?
Record carbon emissions in Canada, overheating of the oceans or even a month of July listed as the hottest on record on Earth: all...
Belém Summit: "Putting the Amazonians back at the center is not nothing"
At the Belém summit, which ended on Wednesday, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela signed a declaration establishing an Alliance Against...
Upwelling, the weather phenomenon that cools the Mediterranean
On Sunday August 6, on the beach of La Ciotat, near Marseille, many bathers were surprised: the temperature of the Mediterranean showed 13.5 degrees....
Heatwave: Spain hit again, Portugal hoping for lull from fires
The alert did not cease within the Iberian Peninsula this Wednesday, August 9. The peak of heat seems to have been reached in Spain,...
Natural disasters: damage estimated at $120 billion in 2023
Damage from natural disasters decreased slightly in the first half of 2023 globally. According to Swiss Re's estimates, they would amount to 120 billion...
March: Major discovery of an ancient environment suitable for life
Our research group publishes, today in Nature, the first tangible evidence of the past and lasting existence of environments on the surface of Mars...
July 2023 was the hottest month on record on earth
July 2023 has largely broken the record for the hottest month ever recorded on earth, with 0.33°C warmer than the month which held the...
Astronomy: "There is no escaping the environmental issue"
"This festival is placed under the sign of sobriety, of the awareness of the need to transform our societies to save the planet. It...
Amazonia: what are the stakes of the Belém summit, which opened in Brazil?
Called by leftist Brazilian President Lula, whose country is home to 60% of the Amazon rainforest, member countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization...
In Portugal, nearly 2,800 firefighters still mobilized to fight the fires, at least 7,000...
Hundreds of firefighters are fighting Tuesday, August 8 against a fire that has been raging for four days in the south-west of Portugal, plagued...
July 2023 has easily broken the record for the hottest month ever recorded on...
Records with "disastrous consequences" for the world: July 2023 was indeed the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, confirmed, Tuesday August 8, the European...
Japan: Fukushima radioactive water discharged as early as end of August?
Just weeks after the approval of the nuclear police, Tokyo is closer than ever to a release of the radioactive water used to cool...
Corsica: a start-up transforms jellyfish… into fertilizer
If they can make life hell for bathers in this summer period, they are also a little treasure for science. At first sight, it...
Russia to conquer the Moon for the first time since 1976
Russia will launch its first spacecraft to the moon on Friday since 1976, the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced on Monday, which has been...
The Science Behind Non-Lethal Weapons: How They Work And Their Impact
In the grand scheme of human conflict, the advent of non-lethal weapons has heralded a new era, one that favors control and safety over...
The polecat removed from the list of animals that can be hunted all year...
The government published the new list of "species likely to cause damage" (ESOD) on Friday August 4th. This one, which will be valid until...
Oceans: new world surface temperature record
This week, the oceans set a new world temperature record, with their surface reaching 20.96°C, according to data from Europe's Copernicus observatory reported on...
A fire is rapidly progressing on the border between France and Spain
Due to strong winds, a forest fire on the Spanish Mediterranean coast, on the border with France, progressed rapidly on Friday evening, resulting in...
Polecat removed from list of "species likely to cause damage"
The polecat can no longer be hunted all year round. With the exception of this species, the new list, published Friday August 4 by...
Thousands of works of art archived on the Moon
Code name ? Lunar Codex. American physicist Samuel Peralta has recently fulfilled a childhood dream thanks to NASA: to send a little of himself,...
How dependent is France on Nigerian uranium?
A week after the coup perpetrated in Niger by General Abdourahamane Tiani, France completed, on Wednesday August 2, the evacuation of six hundred French...
Climate: "We must remain rational without carrying on a speech of panic"
The IPCC is entering its seventh cycle. The new office will begin work at a pivotal time, as we have just gone through the...
Weather: And the return of good weather is forecast for…
Autumn before its time. After the hottest month of July on record, the start of August was rainy, at least in the northern part...
How is "overshoot day" calculated?
This Wednesday, August 2, the symbolic limit of "overshoot day" was crossed for 2023, according to calculations by the NGO Global Footprint Network (GFN)....
Storm Patricia: a deceased woman, a child between life and death
The Patricia depression hitting the country on Wednesday claimed its first victim. A bather died in Ouessant (Finistère), according to Le Télégramme. Rescuers were...
Bad weather: a woman dies while swimming on the island of Ouessant
A 50-year-old who bathed on the island of Ouessant (Finistère) despite an atmospheric depression combined with high tides died on Wednesday August 2.While the...
Mediterranean on fire, Paris in the rain: the reasons for a paradoxical summer weather
The planet is burning, but most French people are in thin air. Such is the paradox of a summer 2023 of all contrasts. On...
Weather in France: "autumn" weather in August
July was the hottest month on Earth on record. If Greece and Italy were ravaged by fires favored by extreme temperatures, France was rather...
Euclid: promising first images for the European telescope
A month after its launch, the European space telescope Euclid, soon in position 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, opened its eye to take its...
Liberia ready to grant 10% of the country's land area to an Emirati company...
Liberia is set to grant exclusive rights to 1 million hectares of forest, or about 10% of the country's land area, to a private...
Killer whales: should we fear cetacean attacks on boats?
Sailors have recently testified to being attacked by killer whales. As an explanation of these behaviors, the attractiveness of the game is evoked. But...
When Barbie served as a guinea pig to advance space research
In the 1960s, scientists used Barbie dolls to test methods of removing lunar dust from space suits. Dressed in a custom-made spacesuit, Barbie was...
Storms: eight departments of Rhône-Alpes in orange vigilance
This Saturday, July 29 will be characterized in particular by gloomy weather in the center-east of the country with thunderstorms that can potentially be...
Greece fires put ecosystem 'at risk', experts say
Between the regression of forests, that of crops and the overheating of cities, the Greek ecosystem appears to be in danger according to experts....
The new president of the IPCC wants to be optimistic about the future of...
Recently elected to head the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), Jim Skea wants to be realistic and optimistic. Thursday, July 27, he said...
Mars: Was Mount Olympus a Volcanic Island?
Was Mount Olympus, the largest of the Martian volcanoes, a giant volcanic island in the past? The idea may seem surprising, but that's what...
A quarter of French people admit to throwing their waste out of the car...
The results came in this morning: more than one in four French people admit to throwing their waste out the window when driving, according...
Astronomy: August under the stars…
You don't need to be an astronomer or even have any scientific training to appreciate the beauty of the night sky. While the mild...
After the Mediterranean Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean also breaks its heat record
A few days after the Mediterranean Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean also broke a daily temperature record this week, several weeks ahead of its...