Tag: climate change
the necessary adaptation of forests
In France, the summer of 2022 marked the spirits: unprecedented heat waves added to a severe drought. More than 65,000 hectares have burned in the country according to the European…
“Coastal mobility will be accentuated by climate change”
The demolition of the Signal has begun. Trapped by the erosion of the coast, coupled with the rising waters caused by climate change, this building has become a symbol of…
70 years of flood disaster: Meteorologists in De Bilt warned of the storm with telex and telegrams
Today, the Netherlands reflects on the flood disaster of 1953. 1836 people died, tens of thousands of animals did not survive and large areas of Zeeland, North Brabant and South…
Visiting Somalia, the American ambassador to the UN warns of the famine
The Horn of Africa is one of the regions hardest hit by climate change From southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya via Somalia, 22 million people are threatened by hunger, victims…
Cobalt, the electric dream in the West and the reverse in Africa?
From extraction to sale, the history of the cobalt industry – essential for running the batteries of smartphones and electric cars – is riddled with scandals. And 70% of world…
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…