Tag: Pollution
Near Madagascar, coral reefs also threatened by the phenomenon of bleaching
The world is currently experiencing, for the second time in ten years, a massive episode of coral bleaching due to record ocean temperatures, the American Oceanic and Atmospheric Observing Agency…
NGOs want Shell to clean up its pollution before selling its land assets
Around forty civil society organizations, including Amnesty International, oppose the sale of Shell’s land activities until the multinational has cleaned up the pollution left behind. In January, the Dutch-British major…
“Infections and pollution, an explosive cocktail” – L’Express
At the head of Covars, the Committee for Monitoring and Anticipating Health Risks, immunologist Brigitte Autran is surveying the country, to better prepare it for crises. With her team, she…
MSF warns of a cholera epidemic and the lack of means to deal with it
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is sounding the alarm about the escalation of the cholera epidemic, particularly in areas occupied by war…
the French National Assembly examines the dangers of “eternal pollutants”
They are called “perennial pollutants” because they persist for decades in the air, soil, rivers and also accumulate in food and in our bodies. PFAS, chemicals with non-stick or water-…
In Nepal, new rules to make climbing Everest safer and less polluting
Hundreds of climbers will, once again this year, try to climb Everest, the highest peak on the planet (8,849 m). Last year, eighteen people lost their lives during these expeditions,…
Lombardy, Pollution: the impact of agriculture on PM2.5 comparable to urbanisation, industry and transport
(Finance) – A study by Polytechnic of Milan published in the Chemosphere magazine quantified the impact of agricultural land on the spatial distribution of concentration of fine particles (PM2.5) in…
The “responsibility” of the State recognized in the chlordecone scandal in the West Indies: “We are delighted but it is not enough”
The State’s responsibility in the health scandal involving chlordecone, a pesticide long used in banana plantations in the Antilles, is officially recognized by the National Assembly. According to a study…
in Roissy, the air is as polluted as on the Paris ring road
The concentrations of ultrafine particles (PUF) at the heart of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport are similar to those observed along the Paris ring road, one of the most polluted axes…
Heavy goods vehicles from Southern countries, export pollution
In Benin, trucks blamed for polluting the country’s cities With our correspondent in Cotonou, Jean-Luc Aplogan Heavy goods vehicles are very numerous and visible in Cotonou and its surroundings. They…