Tag: climate change
“we are going to experience many more extreme events”
Climatologist and research director at the IRD, the Research Institute for Development, Françoise Vimeux answers questions from RFI on the current heat wave that is crushing France and southern Europe.…
Fires in Gironde: “The vegetation is ready to ignite with any spark”
By : Clementine Pawlotsky The forest never stops burning in La Teste-de-Buch, a town in the very touristy Arcachon basin, and in Landiras and Guillos, south of the Gironde. The…
in France, the gigantic fire which devastates the Gironde is gaining ground
In Gironde, where 11,000 hectares of vegetation have burned since Tuesday, a fire of exceptional magnitude regained ground on Monday July 18. New evacuations were underway in the town of…
North America plagued by fires and drought
In the grip of a heat wave, North America is once again experiencing fires and drought this summer. Wildfires have broken out in Canada, while the western United States is…
Comics: “The endless world”, by Christophe Blain and Jean-Marc Jancovici, “an object to transmit easily”
It’s been one of the best-selling comics of the year, since it went on sale last October: The endless world, by Christophe Blain and Jean-Marc Jancovici, explains in 120 pages…
more than 10,000 hectares ravaged, evacuations continue
It will still be very hot in France this Sunday, July 17; 38 departments have been placed on orange alert, mostly on the Atlantic coast. It is precisely there that…
the forest, between the hammer of global warming and the anvil of development
The seventh report on the forests of the Congo Basin, published on July 7 by 150 researchers and experts, seven years after the previous one, aims to give leaders the…
The renaturation of Strasbourg for residents in need of nature
Renaturing the city means adapting cities with “less tar and more trees to create freshness”. The city of Strasbourg has been on this path for three years and the municipality…
In the spotlight: the very real effects of climate change
Do’” we continue like this ? “, challenges us the One of Release. ” More and more frequent, more and more intense, the episodes of very strong heat like the…
Western Europe hit by another intense heat wave
After Spain and Portugal already in the midst of a heat wave, the United Kingdom and France – where a thousand hectares of forest have gone up in smoke –…