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La stratégie, très attendue par la communauté scientifique, se veut une réponse au déclin de la santé des enfants américains. Mais aucune mesure n’est prévue pour diminuer la présence d’aliments nocifs dans les assiettes ou l’imprégnation de la population par les produits chimiques. Le pays le plus riche du monde rend ses enfants malades, en a conscience, et ne compte pas faire grand-chose pour y remédier. […] C’est la conclusion qui s’impose à la lecture de la « stratégie MAHA », « Make America Healthy Again » (« Rendre sa santé à l’Amérique »), publiée mardi 9 septembre par Robert Kennedy Jr, le ministre de la santé de Donald Trump.

“We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems,” said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. “For me, what we’ve got to do now is hunker down.”

Des études citées par l'administration Trump n'existent en réalité pas, ont fait savoir les auteurs à qui elles ont été attribuées.

ces politiques visent à transformer en profondeur l’État et la société. C’est tout particulièrement le cas en ce qui concerne la politique religieuse de la nouvelle administration, avec la création à la Maison Blanche d’un « bureau de la foi » (White House Faith Office (WHFO)), chargé de faire des recommandations au président et de consulter sur diverses questions des leaders religieux, qui a autorité sur l’octroi de subventions publiques aux institutions religieuses développant des activités sociales d’aide aux plus démunis.

Victoire pour le président des États-Unis, qui se bat depuis des années contre les restrictions d’eau sur le sol américain, qui l’empêchent de prendre une «bonne douche pour prendre soin de ses beaux cheveux». Rendre leur grandeur aux douches américaines, c’était une des priorités de Donald Trump mercredi, au milieu de la tempête diplomatique et financière entraînée par la guerre commerciale qu’il livre au reste du monde. Le président américain a signé un décret levant les restrictions de débit des pommeaux de douche, qui avaient été imposées pour limiter la consommation.

If currently implemented policies are continued with no increase in ambition, there is a 90% chance that the Earth will warm between 2.3°C and 4.5°C, with a best estimate of 3.5°C.

Climate Obstruction Across Europe, coordinated by the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) and published via Oxford University Press, reveals extensive networks impeding climate action within the region and surrounding states. In Italy and Germany, far-right networks spread misinformation by questioning climate science’s validity, while in Spain and the UK, blame-shifting and deflecting responsibility for climate action are common. European-based fossil fuel industries, like Shell, engage in greenwashing, by framing gas as a ‘bridging technology crucial for the energy transition’, delaying genuine progress.

Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2024

Unesco joint research dating back 15 years found violence and intimidation against about 750 reporters and 44 murders

Oil cartel warns ‘pressure may reach a tipping point’ and that ‘politically motivated campaigns put our prosperity’ at risk

UK has led the way, with countries across the continent making mass arrests, passing draconian new laws and labelling activists as eco-terrorists

Several climate court cases have been stuck in legal limbo for years. Now they're about to get a lot more interesting.

It looks like we have to wait a little more to see the end of the oil age. Our desire to burn more and more stuff knows no limits — at least not when talking about the foreseeable future. Statements like “oil will be needed for at least another 10 years” or “independent experts agree that global oil and natural gas demand will increase over the next 30 years” suggest that transitioning to ‘renewables’ will have to wait a little. Will we burn as much carbon as we see fit then? Well, as usual, reality will have a thing or two to say in the matter.

Industry funds ‘grassroots’ resistance to tougher rules while touting green credentials, study shows

For decades fossil fuel majors tried to fight the consensus – just as big tobacco once disputed that smoking kills.

We have here (in the Baltic Sea, about half a million tonnes of conventional munitions and about 40,000 tonnes of chemical weapons. Some of the conventional munitions are armed and may explode if moved. As for poisoning people and fish, we don`t have enough data to speak of probability. However, the bombs leak poisonous substances, the seabed is contaminated in their immediate vicinity (up to 250 m).

In 2005, I was the lead counsel on behalf of the US in one of the biggest corporate accountability legal actions ever filed. That trial proved that the tobacco industry knew it was selling and marketing a harmful product, that it had funded denial of public health science, and had used deceptive advertising and PR to protect assets instead of protecting consumers.

Only the boldest leadership can unite the EU against the delusional tyrant in Moscow. The German chancellor has the chance to provide it

Is it possible to enjoy both economic growth and environmental sustainability? This question is a matter of fierce political debate between green growth and post-growth advocates. Considering what is at stake, a careful assessment to determine whether the scientific foundations behind this decoupling hypothesis are robust or not is needed.

Hugo Tagholm can clear a beach in minutes. He issues a raw sewage alert and everyone races out of the water. Swimmers hate sewage as much as sharks — no one wants to splash about in excrement. But even Tagholm gets it wrong sometimes and finds himself surfing a brown wave. “It’s pretty unpleasant paddling through effluent,” he says. “I avoid it at all costs.”