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...
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...
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....
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...
'It's going to be up to 41°C': French tourists suffocate in heat wave
Like almost every year, Elisabeth and her husband take their motorhome to Greece. "We've been here since July 2. From this weekend, we clearly...
Green algae: Court sets four-month deadline for state to do more
The administrative court of Rennes has set a four-month deadline for the State to strengthen the fight against green algae in Brittany, in an...
At Météo-France, how is an orange or red vigilance level decided?
The quadricolor map of Météo-France is rarely a good omen. Since 2001, this is how the meteorological institute warns the population and public services...
'Heavy', 'feather' or 'heat dome'… the words to understand rising temperatures
Once exceptional, periods of high heat are now multiplying and becoming more intense under the effect of global warming. Heat is one of the...
Heat Wave: How a 'Mediterranean Anticyclone' Turned into a 'Local Monster'
Temperatures that are cold in the back. 48°C in Italy, 40°C in the Mediterranean basin, 52.2°C in China… The northern hemisphere of the planet...
Heat wave: 7 departments placed in orange vigilance for the day of Tuesday
The oppressive heat wave that is hitting the western Mediterranean basin this week will raise temperatures to 40°C on Tuesday in places in the...
A mother and daughter aboard Virgin Galactic's next spaceflight
A new Virgin Galactic spaceflight is scheduled for August 10, with an 80-year-old man on board as well as a mother and daughter, having...
Heatwave: more than 44 degrees in Spain, a record expected in Sardinia on Tuesday
Several fires broke out in Greece on Monday where seaside areas were evacuated as the thermometer in many parts of Europe rose above 40...
Heatwave: 7 French departments on orange alert on Tuesday, temperatures of up to 48°C...
The summer of 2023 is marked, in France as in the rest of the world, by abnormally high temperatures, well above seasonal norms, one...
"North Africa is already used to the heat waves that Europe is experiencing"
The heat wave from the Sahara that is hitting southern Europe is also testing the countries of North Africa, where temperature records have been...
A record heat wave sets in in the northern hemisphere
The heat wave plaguing the northern hemisphere of the planet seems to be only in its infancy. From Europe to China via the United...
The extraordinary challenge of wind power in the face of global warming
At the top of their 91-meter mast, the 117-meter-diameter rotors turn at a steady speed, taking advantage of the Picardy wind to generate electrical...
Global warming: "Our forests need to be managed and nurtured"
French forests are gradually losing their ability to capture and store CO2. In recent days, several national media have echoed the publication of the...
Avian flu: WHO fears that the virus adapts "more easily" to the human species
The World Health Organization on Wednesday (July 12th) expressed concern that the increase in cases of avian flu in mammals is helping the virus...
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",...
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...
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...