Tag: Environment
The disputed project of mega-basins “aims to make better use of water”, defends Marc Fesneau
08:44 On November 2, work for the construction of a water reservoir or “mega-basin” must resume in Sainte-Soline in Deux-Sèvres, in western France. After the protests last weekend, opponents of…
US and Emirates reach $100 billion deal
COP27, the UN climate conference, opens in less than a week, on November 6 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. A few days before this annual meeting, the United States and the…
Mega-basins and water war
Last weekend, several thousand activists gathered in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), in the heart of the Marais poitevin, where a “water reservoir” is under construction. They tried to obstruct the work and…
offices and shops ordered to turn off the lights at night in Paris
Energy sobriety obliges, after the historical monuments, it is the turn of the offices and businesses of the capital to turn off the lights at the end of the day.…
Risky industries are lacking in the work environment
Close to 5,000 employers in industries with risky work have received greetings from the Swedish Work Environment Agency’s inspectors over the course of four years. The risk of accidents is…
Anti-basins demonstration: “We should be able to fill these mega-basins with only rain”
Last Saturday, clashes broke out between police and protesters in Sainte-Oline, in Deux-Sèvres, in western France. Several thousand demonstrators expressed their dissatisfaction with the project to build a “mega-basin”, a…
Towards an authorization for seabed mining?
The council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) opens this Monday, October 31, in Kingston, Jamaica. This meeting will be very important, as it could open the door to seabed…
poverty, environment… What is his program for Brazil?
LULA PROGRAM. Elected President of the Federal Republic of Brazil this Sunday, October 30, Lula must now govern a country plagued by economic, social and environmental crises. How does he…
tension on the uses of water, police and environmentalists clash in Deux-Sèvres
In France, 60 gendarmes were injured, 22 of them seriously, on Saturday October 29 in Sainte-Soline in the Deux-Sèvres, during clashes between the police and environmental and anti-capitalist activists. The…
the endangered emperor penguin
One step closer to the sixth mass extinction. The emperor penguin has just been classified as an endangered species by the “Fish and WildLife Service” in the United States. This…