Tag: Environment
Genetics: what are the hereditary characteristics?
The color of the eyes, that of the hair or the shape of the face are hereditary characteristics but others are not, such as fingerprints for example. Enter the fascinating…
Justice rejects NGO appeal against Shell seismic project
A South African high court on Friday dismissed environmental organizations which had taken legal action to prevent Shell from carrying out a search for oil and gas deposits by seismic…
Soils with more fungi can store more carbon
Global warming and damage caused by intensive agriculture and deforestation. Some models now predict that 40% less carbon can be stored in soils by 2100 compared to what older simulations…
“Let’s decarbonize culture”, arts, cinema, books, shows, digital …
The ecological crisis and climate change are omnipresent in more and more films, books, shows and works of art. On the other hand, compared to its own functioning of production…
“Medicine cannot greatly reduce the use of antibiotics”
In France, the health agency Anses has just announced that the use of antibiotics in human and animal medicine had decreased in ten years by 45% for animals, against 18%…
Ecology, a major theme in science fiction
Two weeks after the end of the COP26 in Glasgow, held under the threat of a global temperature increase of 2.7 ° C by 2100, novels, films and video games…
The virtues of the past for the society of the future, by Roland Lehoucq
The functioning of a human society is based on its consumption of matter and energy. In physics, this observation is obvious because, according to her, energy measures the capacity of…
demonstrations against expropriation laws linked to mining projects
At the call of several ecological citizen collectives, especially on social networks, thousands of Serbs took to the streets. They reject the new law on expropriations and the new law…
Maud Lelièvre, President of IUCN: “The protection of pollinating insects is an emergency”
The city of Tours, in central France, is hosting the first Biodiversity University this Saturday, November 27. The meeting organized by the OLB, the French Biodiversity Office, is intended to…
Will sobriety help us limit global warming?
The notion of sobriety is an old notion. Which, in the current context, seems to want to be brought up to date. In different areas, but always with the idea…