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Four months into US oil blockade, Cubans see island drained as state electric company fights to provide even a few hours of power a day Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana - The doctor called from the darkness, a shadowy figure sitting on the stoop of his apartment building. “I want to tell you we’ve been four days without light,” he said. “And without electricity, water is also a problem. And there are mosquitoes everywhere.”

The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded. Ongoing sea-level rise and the rampant erosion of wetlands in southern Louisiana will swallow up the New Orleans area within a few generations, with the new paper estimating the city “may well be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century”.

 As climate protests are mounting across Italy, there is a corresponding escalation in repressive responses from public authorities. This trend is not unique to Italy but is rather widespread throughout Europe, as evidenced by frequent reports in national newspapers... What sets Italy apart from other European nations is the spectacular increase in the use of preventive measures by the public security administration.

Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

Study author says tech companies are reaping benefits of artificial intelligence age but society is left to pay cost

Émissions CO₂ de la consommation électrique en temps réel | Electricity Maps

Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling

The vast ice of Antarctica has long seemed impregnable. But sudden changes are arriving – from shrinking sea ice to melting ice sheets and slowing ocean currents.

Tsahal a annoncé ce vendredi 19 septembre l’intensification de son offensive sur la ville et a appelé la population à évacuer.

Dans la nuit de lundi à mardi, Israël a lancé son offensive terrestre dans ­la ville de Gaza, causant la mort de plusieurs dizaines de personnes et forçant la population à fuir à nouveau. Au même moment, le rapport d’une commission de l’ONU dénonçait un «génocide» en cours.

L'armée israélienne a communiqué dimanche de nouveaux ordres d'évacuations via des tracts aux habitants de la ville de Gaza, avant de frapper une nouvelle tour d'habitations, la tour al-Kawthar, où selon elle le Hamas avait installé "des postes d'observation pour surveiller l'emplacement des (...) troupes dans la zone".

L'armée israélienne a affirmé samedi que plus de 250.000 habitants avaient quitté la ville de Gaza vers d'autres secteurs du territoire palestinien, après une intensification des bombardements et raids israéliens ces dernières semaines.

Au lendemain de l’attaque d’une station d’autobus à Jérusalem-Est qui a fait six morts côté israélien, Tsahal appelle ce mardi 9 septembre, comme Benyamin Nétanyahou, «tous les habitants de la ville» de l’enclave palestinienne à évacuer.

La capitale de l’enclave palestinienne a été bombardée ce jeudi 21 août par l’armée israélienne, qui a appelé à l’évacuation des hôpitaux et des ONG vers le Sud, se préparant à l’offensive terrestre.

Nonylphenol is a toxic xenobiotic compound classified as an endocrine disrupter capable of interfering with the hormonal system of numerous organisms. It originates principally from the degradation of nonylphenol ethoxylates which are widely used as industrial surfactants. Nonylphenol ethoxylates reach sewage treatment works in substantial quantities where they biodegrade into several by-products including nonylphenol. Due to its physical–chemical characteristics, such as low solubility and high hydrophobicity, nonylphenol accumulates in environmental compartments that are characterised by high organic content, typically sewage sludge and river sediments, where it persists.

Alors qu’Elon Musk est en froid avec Donald Trump, au point de vouloir créer son propre parti politique, le milliardaire peut désormais se vanter d’avoir fait naître une nouvelle ville, au sud-est du Texas. Ce qui n’est pas sans poser des problèmes humains et environnementaux.

In an analysis of the best available Earth systems models, Northeastern researchers found that by the turn of the next century, 850 million people will feel the effects of declining runoff from the world's major rivers.

Why is the Trump Administration trying to kill a small space science institute in New York City? Explanation begins with Galileo’s method of scientific inquiry and ends with the role of special interest money in the United States government. Galileo improved the telescope, allowing clearer observations of the planets and the Sun. Galileo differed from his peers, as he was unafraid to challenge authority. He claimed that the world should be understood based on observations, and he spoke directly to the public. He obtained philanthropic support for his observations and openly described the conclusion that Earth was not the center of the solar system – Earth revolved around the Sun.

Springtails illustrate in new research how global warning and antibiotic resistance creates synergistic effects: warming increases pesticide toxicity, triggering antibiotic resistance which spreads through horizontal gene transfer and predation.

We develop roadmaps to transform the all-purpose energy infrastructures (electricity, transportation, heating/cooling, industry, agriculture/forestry/fishing) of 139 countries to ones powered by wind, water, and sunlight (WWS). The roadmaps envision 80% conversion by 2030 and 100% by 2050. WWS not only replaces business-as-usual (BAU) power, but also reduces it ∼42.5% because the work: energy ratio of WWS electricity exceeds that of combustion (23.0%), WWS requires no mining, transporting, or processing of fuels (12.6%), and WWS end-use efficiency is assumed to exceed that of BAU (6.9%). Converting may create ∼24.3 million more permanent, full-time jobs than jobs lost. It may avoid ∼4.6 million/year premature air-pollution deaths today and ∼3.5 million/year in 2050; ∼$22.8 trillion/year (12.7 ¢/kWh-BAU-all-energy) in 2050 air-pollution costs; and ∼$28.5 trillion/year (15.8 ¢/kWh-BAU-all-energy) in 2050 climate costs. Transitioning should also stabilize energy prices because fuel costs are zero, reduce power d