Tag: waves
Heat waves, fires, drought… Summer 2022 is a taste of the future according to Météo France
Record heat waves for the summer of 2022 in France, with three heat waves and 33 days in total: according to a new report from Météo France published on Tuesday…
Acoustic gripper: objects lifted and manipulated by sound waves
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Paule Constant, on the waves of an African memory
Paule Constant offers us with “The blindness of the rivers”, a journey to the heart of Africa. It recounts the plunge of a Nobel Prize in Medicine into his African…
Heroic canal trip Utrecht swimming team successful despite waves, jellyfish and seasickness: ‘It was great!’
The swimmers of Team 5Ladies@Sea managed to cross the English-France channel back and forth. Saturday at 06.30 hours Dutch time they started the journey from Dover. Without an overnight stay,…
What were the most intense heat waves and heat waves in France?
While in the context of anthropogenic global warming, episodes of extreme heat are multiplying and intensifying, a look back at the history of heat waves in France. That of 2003…
Are repetitive heat waves and droughts directly linked to global warming?
A database reveals that the world’s biggest climate disasters since the 1930s are either directly linked to warming from greenhouse gas emissions or made worse by it. The most obvious…
Taiwan: “An open war would expose the world economy to massive shock waves”
The tension has gone up a notch between China and Taiwan in recent days, after the visit of Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, the highest American…
How does the SNCF adapt to heat waves and heat waves?
With the heat waves that follow one another, it is not uncommon for the SNCF to send a few text messages to its users. “Heat wave alert, possible disruption. Take…
Researchers: More and more heat waves in the sea on the West Coast
At the Tjärnö Marina laboratory in northern Bohuslän, the temperature in the water has been measured for almost 40 years. On a fine summer day, SVT follows us out in…
Spain faces deadly heat waves
Heat waves are wreaking havoc in Spain, a country experiencing its third wave these days. According to the Ministry of Health, which itself holds it from the Carlos III Health…