Tag: Environment
How does salting the roads in snowfall harm the environment, what are the alternatives?
A common practice in heavy snowfalls is salting the roads against the danger of icing. But scientists say using rock salt on the roads is harmful to life and best…
The Amazon rainforest may turn into savannah faster than expected
The Amazon is bad and it will get worse. This is the conclusion of a study published in the prestigious journal Nature. According to its authors, at the current rate…
The seaweed rush – Great report
It is a booming market which today weighs 15 billion euros in the world, and which is still largely untapped. Algae, potentially veritable green gold, suffer from a bad reputation,…
In Madagascar, residents forced to drink potentially polluted river water
The exploitation of ilmenite carried out by the company QMM, a subsidiary of the company Rio Tinto, would be at the origin of this risk, denounce organizations in a press…
rising cereal prices will weigh on an already inflationary environment
The war in Ukraine is driving up the prices of certain raw materials. Gas reached a new historic record on Friday in Europe, oil also soared. And the food is…
It’s 6 a.m. in Paris, the cattle at the Salon de l’Agriculture are waking up…
For nine days, the breeders who exhibit their animals at the International Agricultural Show in Paris are on deck long before daybreak and until late at night. Behind-the-scenes report from…
an agreement for the compensation of the victims of the oil spill
An agreement was reached between Lima and the Spanish oil company Repsol after the oil spill caused on January 15 during the unloading of a tanker off the La Pampilla…
The UN adopts the principle of a treaty against plastic pollution
In Nairobi, the UN adopted this Wednesday, March 2, the principle of an international treaty ” legally binding campaign against plastic pollution, a breakthrough described as historic in the fight…
torrential rains and floods now on Sydney’s doorstep
The east coast of Australia continues to be swept by torrential rains, having caused major flooding earlier this week in Queensland, but also in northern New South Wales. The human…
The contours of a future international treaty against plastic pollution are emerging
Will a consensus be found in Nairobi on the outlines of a future international treaty against plastic pollution which is reaching world records? This is the objective of the United…