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
The United Nations Environment Program released last week its fourth Global Environment Outlook and issued “(its) final wake-up call to the international community” to tackle environmental issues. Among those threats are climate change, but also overfishing, air and water pollution and so on. This was written 20 years after the first version, known as the […]
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I came across a worrying news while browsing the RSS feeds of the French daily le Figaro. 30 sites among the 851 that are part of the World Heritage are considered endangered by the UNESCO. Tourism, wars and natural phenomenons (climate change, earthquakes…) are among the causes. This news was brought up as the UNESCO
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This week-end was held in Slovenia the seventh European Symposium for the protection of the night sky. This is the occasion to have a look at the lightning of our cities at night. As more lights mean more greenhouse gases emissions, we will have to reduce the amount of lightning to fight climate change. The
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The Blacksmith Institute, an environmental NGO from the United States, released this month a report on the 30 most polluted places on Earth. Of the top ten, two are located in China, two in India, two in Russia and another two in the former Soviet bloc. Among the locations is Chernobyl in Ukraine. As we
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Le journal Les Echos a publié la semaine dernière un article alarmant à propos des abeilles. Un phénomène d’importance du fait que ces insectes sont à la base de la pollinisation de 80 % des plantes dont nous avons besoin pour notre alimentation quotidienne. Il est ainsi vital de se préoccuper de façon sérieuse au
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Everybody loves super heroes and personally I am quite partial to Wolverine. (indeed, what is cooler than a nearly invincible mutant ?) Now here comes Jiffy, a super hero created by the European Union in order to raise awareness on energy, water, earth and air issues. People via the Jiffy’s Eco-Quiz can test their knowledge
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As I mentioned it there, the Chinese government is planting billion of trees. It seems that similar projects are under way in India and elsewhere. According to the United Nations Environment Program more than 10 million trees were planted on July 31st by 600,000 people in Uttar Pradesh. As deforestation accounts for a fifth of
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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
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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
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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
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