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Neonicotinoid insecticides are a major driver of pollinator decline. Due to their persistence and mobility in soil, they can contaminate non-target vegetation through runoff or dust, reaching pollinator resources. However, predicting soil contamination is challenging, especially where pesticide use data is lacking. This study assessed the potential of using proxies such as cropping history and landscape structure to predict neonicotinoid content in soils. We analyzed seven neonicotinoids in 86 sites in agricultural landscapes of Belgium.

This article examines the technocentric bias that characterizes climate mitigation literature, focusing on the reports of the IPCC's Working Group III. This bias stems from structural features of the scientific field that prioritizes innovation, leading to the overrepresentation of technological solutions in climate research. Funding mechanisms further reinforce this tendency by incentivizing collaboration with industrial R&D, creating a self-reinforcing loop in which scientific authority and industrial interests converge. The IPCC's institutional positioning—as a policy-relevant yet politically cautious body—amplifies this dynamic by favoring allegedly “cost-effective” technological pathways that lack practical feasibility.

Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels of GDP per capita that currently characterise high-income countries. However, this would require increasing total global output and resource use several times over, dramatically exacerbating ecological breakdown. Furthermore, universal convergence along these lines is unlikely within the imperialist structure of the existing world economy. Here we demonstrate that this dilemma can be resolved with a different approach, rooted in recent needs-based analyses of poverty and development. Strategies for development should not pursue capitalist growth and increased aggregate production as such, but should rather increase the specific forms of production that are necessary to improve capabilities and meet human needs at a high standard, while ensuring universal access to key goods and services through public provisioning and decommodification. At the same time, in high

Dans le rapport ci-après publié le 25 avril dernier, Eurométaux (association européenne des producteurs de métaux) estime que l'Europe aura en particulier besoin, pour atteindre la neutralité carbone en 2050, de 35 fois plus de lithium à l'horizon 2050 (près de 800 000 tonnes par an) qu'à l'heure actuelle, mais aussi de 2 fois plus de nickel (400 000 tonnes en 2050) ou encore de 35% de plus de cuivre (1,5 million de tonnes en 2050). Ledit rapport, rédigé par des chercheurs de l'Université belge KU Leuven, avertit ainsi que « l'Europe pourrait être confrontée à des problèmes de pénurie vers 2030 pour son approvisionnement en lithium, cobalt, nickel, terres rares et cuivre »(1). Les chercheurs associent à leur alerte une « bonne nouvelle » : 40 à 75% des besoins de métaux pourraient être couverts par le recyclage à l'horizon 2050 si l'Europe investit rapidement dans les infrastructures et relève entre autres ses taux de recyclage obligatoires.

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