Coming-out

Le retour à la Maison Blanche du milliardaire républicain rappelle l’époque des barons voleurs, au XIXᵉ siècle, lorsque des industriels bâtissaient des empires grâce à la corruption, explique Richard White, professeur d’histoire émérite à l’université Stanford, en Californie.

Nous aimerions cependant revenir brièvement sur certains de vos propos — par ailleurs tenus avec courtoisie et sans la moindre agressivité (ce qui, avouons-le, ne correspond plus toujours au style de communication de la nouvelle administration américaine) — lors de l'interview que vous avez accordée à RTL Info en début de semaine.

Définitivement placé sous le signe de la religion, le second mandat du président américain est marqué par le rôle croissant de l’agence, mise en place pour renforcer la place dominante du christianisme dans le pays et au-delà.

Théologie de la prospérité, pensée hostile aux Lumières, antiwokisme, libertarisme techno-chrétien... Tour d’horizon des idéologies dont ceux qui comptent dans l’ère Trump II se réclament.

The White House has instructed NASA employees to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. As NPR reports, Trump officials reached out to the space agency to draw up plans for terminating the two missions, called the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

This Research Plan was prepared in response to a requirement in the joint explanatory statement accompanying Division B of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, directing the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to provide a research plan for “solar and other rapid climate interventions.”

The EU have introduced a new regulation on the import of products linked to deforestation – but will this reduce deforestation globally?

Years before the climate crisis was part of national discourse, this memo to the president predicted catastrophe

Vegetated areas above the treeline in the Alps have increased by 77% since 1984, the study says. While retreating glaciers have symbolised the speed of global heating in the Alpine region, researchers described the increases in plant biomass as an “absolutely massive” change.

A succession of record-breaking natural disasters have swept the globe in recent weeks. There have been serious floods in China and western Europe, heatwaves and drought in North America and wildfires in the sub-Arctic.