Here are all the posts about the water and air quality, the recycling and other miscellaneous topics that are not in Sustainable development or Energy
As I mentioned it previously in this article, in January the UK Met Office forecast that 2007 would break all-time records on a meteorological point of view. By reviewing the data available with the first months of the year, it seems to be absolutely the case. This is what the United Nations revealed via one …
On July 15th, the French Capital city launched an interesting public service that enables people to rent bikes to go from on point to another. This program, called Velib (a contraction of vélo, bike and Liberté, freedom) will comprise by the of the year more than 20,500 bikes dispatched in around 1,400 stations. Velib proves …
Sometimes, among the daily bad news, reasons to hope afloat. For instance today, the fact that the Aral sea is back after having been emptied by years of folly. This news were brought to me by the French daily Le Monde, a local paper called the Concord Monitor and the World Bank. This is indeed …
I came across a very disturbing fact via an article in the Financial Times. According to the World Bank, air and water pollution in Chinese large cities kill nearly 750.000 people every year. The government of the People’s Republic of China asked that a third of the report was erased in order to avoid “public …
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As I previously tackled the polls on various English speaking countries, I would like to tackle today my home country and give a more global approach of this very interesting polls.
The WWF, the renowned NGO, released an interesting paper on this meaning of providing drinkable in large quantities and according to them, it is not a perfect solution.
This question appeared lately in the US press notably in the New York Times. This happens as the local President is willing to stimulate economic growth. The current President of this large country, Mr. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – also known in the media simply as Lula – is willing to build two dams …
A series of polls were done worldwide on the concerns on environmental questions. Among the countries asked were the United States and Australia. Here are the main findings.
When the Chinese government has an idea, it goes forward fast and in a gigantic manner. So, in order to hold back the Gobi desert – a very important issue for cities like Beijing – the local government decided to plant million trees during the next 70 years. The Gobi Desert, extends itself from Southern …
Science et Vie, one of the magazines I read, is a wonderful source of data. Albeit the fact I am no scientist and I don’t got any scientific degree, I always have been largely interested by hard sciences. It begun with my interest for astronomy.
