Today’s article is about the United States’ first step to limit carbon dioxide emissions one day. We will outline below why this is good news for the fight against climate change. As you surely know, the USA are one of the only developed countries that have not ratified the Kyoto Protocol, hence the importance of …
This is the speed achieved today by the French Train à Grande Vitesse (high speed train) hence breaking the previous world record of 515 kph dated from 1990. This world record is interesting as train is releasing much less greenhouse gases than planes.
The climate change reports by the IPCC experts are made of three parts. After the release of the first part of the fourth report that was published in January, the second one is due for Friday. This section will be handling the “impacts, adaptation and vulnerability” due to climate change.
For the first article of April, and for the three months of existence of this blog, I will handle a very serious subject. The International Herald Tribune published on its website an article on the threat that climate change may become for developing countries. The conclusions are indeed food for thought.
Last month I was saying that environment was little talked about by the candidates. March was even worse in that aspect. Almost nothing in the past weeks was said on the environmental issues.
During my previous cultural break I was writing about a European “bandes dessinées”. This month, I would like to write on my favorite comics series, Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. As I bought last week The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, I would like to drop a few lines to show you how GREAT this …
A very short note just to state that the European Union is fifty today. Indeed, 50 years ago, on March 25th 1957, the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community (or EEC), the ancestor of the EU as we know it today.
After a week of work on the new design of this blog, I can say that most things I wanted to implement are already there. Off course, details like the navigation bar’s colours or the sidebar’s look itself need to be improved. There are still some minor bugs and corrections to bring, but to me …
These are the terms used yesterday to describe climate change by Al Gore in front of the US Congress. Mr. Gore is a former vice-president of the USA and is an environmentalist with huge conviction. He released last year “An inconvenient truth“, a film that contributes to mass awareness of the threat represented by climate …
Yesterday, an explosion occurred in a coal mine in Siberia, a region of Russia, and the latest tolls speak about 100 deaths. It is the deadliest mining accident in Russia since the fall of communism.
