Tag: Environment
Can the Olympics be green?
In 417 days, the 33rd Olympiad will begin in Paris. Olympic Games announced as “historic for the climate”. The project is, indeed, ambitious: to reduce the carbon footprint by half…
A Quebec hospital center innovates to reduce its carbon impact
The health sector is a major producer of greenhouse gases on a global scale. Some institutions are trying to change practices, medical or not, to reduce their carbon footprint, such…
Study: Degradable plastic also dangerous to the environment
Updated 02:42 | Published at 02:32 fullscreen The perch’s behavior was changed by the bioplastic. Press photo. Photo: Elenanoeva/University of Gothenburg Biodegradable plastic from cane sugar can also be environmentally…
Study: Degradable plastic also dangerous to the environment
Facts: The study The study was conducted on 60 fish that were placed five each in 45-liter aquariums. Their behavior was filmed and analyzed, and towards the end of the…
in Alberta, the climate issue remains the big forgotten of the local election campaign
Voters in Alberta, the Canadian province where around fifty fires are still raging, go to the polls on Monday to elect their government and choose their deputy. The big absentee…
delicate negotiations open in Paris
The second negotiation session for a future international treaty to put an end to plastic pollution begins this Monday in Paris at the premises of Unesco and is due to…
climate activists invite themselves to a general meeting under high tension
After BP and Shell, comes the turn of TotalEnergies: the French hydrocarbon giant is preparing for an electric general meeting on Friday morning, targeted before its opening by scuffles between…
IEA predicts solar investment to overtake oil in 2023
Global investments in solar energy are expected to exceed the amounts invested in oil extraction in 2023 for the first time, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday. Driven…
a hundred European and American elected officials demand the withdrawal of the president
More than 130 elected officials from the US Congress and European Parliament have urged US President Joe Biden, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and UN Secretary General Antonio…
in the eastern Pyrenees, water sharing is already creating tensions
It is the French department most severely affected by the drought: the Eastern Pyrenees (South), on the border with Spain. This territory of mountains, scrubland, vineyards and fruit trees, lives…