Tag: climate change
NASA partners with Boeing
A commercial and sustainable aircraft, a possible dream? In any case, this is what NASA experts believe. The American space agency has just teamed up with the aviation giant Boeing…
Greta Thunberg in Davos, Antonio Guterres charges the oil majors
Back in the Swiss ski resort on the occasion of the World Economic Forum, the young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg must in particular debate with the director general of the…
President Biden visits California on bad weather front
US President Joe Biden will visit areas of California ravaged by a series of storms on Thursday, January 19, which killed at least 19 people. US President Joe Biden will…
groundwater at “worrying” levels
The Geological and Mining Research Bureau (BRGM) said on Friday “ quite pessimistic on water availability in 2023 after last year’s exceptional drought. If rain is so rare in 2023,…
Utrechter Han van Bree stops Het Aanzien Van after forty years: ‘I have to rehab’
On the cover of The Presence of 1980 stands the election of Ronald Reagan as the new president of the United States, not the inauguration of Beatrix. “Not even on…
2023 must be a year of action: ‘Only the image of Utrecht is green’
Three foundations in Utrecht are calling for 2023 to be a year of action. In a pamphlet they fight against the municipal climate policy, district heating and the choice for…
An international conference to help Pakistan overcome the devastating floods
This is one of the advances of the COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh: the creation of an aid fund for the countries most affected by climate change. Except that this fund…
2022, the hottest year recorded in France
Over the whole year, the temperature reached an average of 14.5°C in France. Météo-France qualifies this record as symptom of climate change “. The year 2022 is indeed the hottest…
Due to the heat, the hazel is already in bloom: ‘If it continues like this, it will become a kind of climate refugee’
If it does get cold again, we will see fewer hazelnuts this year, says Hoogenstein. Is this bad? “It can always happen that you have a different summer or winter.…
Mayor Dijksma in New Year’s speech: ‘Utrecht is in a multi-crisis’
Looking to the future, Dijksma emphasized that, after the refugees and corona, the city still has other major challenges ahead. “Unfortunately, the difficult circumstances are not over yet. Because we…