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Trois décès liés au virus "West Nile" sont recensés en région parisienne : un "chiffre important", alerte le virologue Yannick Simonin. Alors qu’il n’existe à ce stade ni traitement ni vaccin, et que l’Europe est de plus en plus exposée aux virus transmis par les moustiques, comment se protéger ?

In 1999, two colonels in China’s People’s Liberation Army wrote a strategy piece called Unrestricted Warfare. It gives guidance on how China can defeat the United States and the West in general. The 228 pages are a surprisingly easy and entertaining read. They’re also illuminating.

Santé publique France a recensé plusieurs cas de maladies transmises par des moustiques sur le territoire français. Jusqu’à présent, les cas étaient importés par des personnes ayant voyagé dans des régions où ces virus circulent.

Il y a des chiffres qui ressemblent à des clins d’œil du destin. 1 337 secondes : soit un peu plus de vingt-deux minutes. Pour le commun des mortels, cela évoque à peine le temps d’un café allongé et de quelques mails. Mais dans le monde ultra-exigeant de la fusion nucléaire, cette poignée de minutes représente un véritable bond de géant. C’est le temps pendant lequel le réacteur français WEST, installé au cœur du CEA à Cadarache, dans les Bouches-du-Rhône, est parvenu à maintenir un plasma, cette matière incandescente qui imite le fonctionnement des étoiles. Un record mondial. Une frontière que personne n’avait jamais atteinte auparavant. Et derrière cet exploit se dessine peut-être l’avenir énergétique de l’humanité tout entière.

​"Extreme heatwaves like the one impacting the Western US this month are one of the catastrophic disasters these companies predicted their conduct would bring about," said Public Citizen.

The Gulf Stream is part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The AMOC is a tipping element and may collapse under changing forcing. However, the role of the Gulf Stream in such a tipping event is unknown. Here, we investigate the link between the AMOC and Gulf Stream using a high-resolution (0. 1°) stand-alone ocean simulation, in which the AMOC collapses under a slowly-increasing freshwater forcing. AMOC weakening gradually shifts the Gulf Stream near Cape Hatteras northward, followed by an abrupt northward displacement of 219 km within 2 years. This rapid shift occurs a few decades before the simulated AMOC collapse. Satellite altimetry shows a significant (1993–2024, p < 0.05) northward Gulf Stream trend near Cape Hatteras, which is also confirmed in subsurface temperature observations (1965–2024, p < 0.01). These findings provide indirect evidence for present-day AMOC weakening and demonstrate that abrupt Gulf Stream shifts can serve as early warning indicator for AMOC tipping.

A citizen of Rome in 117 AD, under Emperor Trajan, would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing. The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia: all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity // the Mediterranean itself. Edward Gibbon gave us six volumes explaining how that feeling turned out to be wrong, and even he couldn't fully untangle all the causes. But the overarching theme might be this: the permanenc

US demand to own Greenland leaves little scope for compromise, and forcing the issue would entail end of Nato Greenland, with a population of fewer than 57,000, might not seem to be the territory on which the future of the relationship between Europe and the US, the viability of Nato as the world’s most successful defence alliance, or even the fractured relations between the UK and Europe would be determined. But battlefields are sometimes the product of chance, rather than choice. It now feels as if Donald Trump’s threat to impose 10% tariffs on eight fellow Nato states for sending troops last week to support Greenland’s sovereignty may be one of those clarifying moments in which Europe had no option. Successive European leaders condemned Trump’s blackmail and intimidation on Sunday and they sounded as if they meant it.

Bronwen Maddox says Trump’s rejection of international law leaves UK and Europe facing huge dilemma

We hebben dit scenario al gezien: een vijandbeeld, een voorwendsel, en westerse stilte. Alleen is het nu Venezuela en zijn de feiten opnieuw minder handig dan het narratief.