Tag: Environment
Combating air, water and soil pollution: European solutions
Plastics in the oceans, cars in city centers or pesticides in the fields. Europeans are looking for local solutions to improve their living environment and fight against pollution. Plastic in…
Mapping of methane emissions from fossil fuels
Methane is the second greenhouse gas with a release of 97 million metric tons per year. To follow the evolution of its emissions, scientists have established maps from the observations…
London expands low-emission zone to tackle pollution
The British capital is fighting on several fronts against car pollution. In addition to the congestion charge – which also aims to reduce congestion on the roads – London multiplied…
Sweden allows nuclear waste to be buried for 100,000 years
The Swedish government authorized on Thursday the construction and commissioning of a final storage facility for its nuclear waste, supposed to keep them for 100,000 years. With our correspondent in…
an election campaign without a real debate on the climate emergency
The environment is the subject we were supposed to talk about, but we don’t talk about it in the French presidential campaign. And the presence of the environmental candidate Yannick…
Organic and local products in school canteens: Lyon’s ambition
It is one of these French metropolises which have switched to environmentalists in the last municipal elections of 2020. Two months before the first round of the presidential election, RFI…
Co-innovation: the X factor of science
Launched on the occasion of the publication of Futura’s first paper review, a survey organized in collaboration with EDF Pulse & You on co-innovation and science shows its interest and…
Your TV is also dangerous for the environment… and even more so than your smartphone
The most controversial high-tech object for its impact on the environment is undoubtedly the smartphone. Companion of our daily life, it federates all the criticisms and all the information campaigns…
A urine-based fertilizer to limit the use of fertilizers?
Field results of Toopi Organics’ first agricultural fertilizer look promising. The spreading of urine-based biostimulants could make it possible to halve the use of phosphate fertilizers. You may also be…
Could Bitcoin mining become illegal?
In the USA, Russia and Europe, some legislators are in favor of banning Bitcoin mining activity, on the pretext that it would be anti-environmental. You will also be interested [EN…