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The latest Lancet Countdown report warns that health impacts of climate change are worsening, with millions dying needlessly each year due to fossil fuel dependence, growing greenhouse gas emissions, and failure to adequately adapt. As some countries and companies rollback on climate commitments, local and grassroots leadership is building momentum for a healthier future.​ The report represents the work of 128 experts from 71 institutions, monitoring progress across 57 indicators – from heat-related deaths to bank lending to fossil fuels – providing the most comprehensive assessment yet of the links between climate change and health.

The activist and author of Here Comes the Sun discusses rapid advances in solar and wind power and how the US ceded leadership in the sector to its main rival

La mégafusée Starship que construit SpaceX, l'entreprise d'Elon Musk, pour aller sur la Lune et Mars a mené lundi un nouveau vol test réussi. Malgré de récents succès, les experts s'inquiètent des retards pris dans son développement.

The NGO Shipbreaking Platform is a global coalition of organisations working to reverse the environmental harm and human rights abuses caused by current shipbreaking practices and to ensure the safe and environmentally sound dismantling of end-of-life ships worldwide. Just as the goods they transport, ships too become waste when they reach the end of their operational lives. Yet only a fraction is handled in a safe and clean manner. The vast majority of the world's end-of-life fleet, full of toxic substances, is simply broken down - by hand - on the beaches of South Asia. There, unscrupulous shipping companies exploit minimal enforcement of environmental and safety rules to maximise profits.

Dans une tribune au « Monde », un ancien directeur des Centres pour le contrôle et la prévention des maladies rappelle que, d’ici à 2030, la nouvelle politique sanitaire américaine pourrait provoquer la mort de plus de quatorze millions de personnes.

Les ministres de l’environnement de l’UE ont adopté, jeudi, une fourchette de baisse des émissions de gaz à effet de serre à l’horizon 2035, comprise entre − 66,25 % et − 72,5 % par rapport à 1990. Ils ont reporté à octobre la discussion concernant la cible 2040.

Predictably, soon, most young people will reject extremist views. This will be none too soon because it is the essential step leading to global political leadership that appreciates the threat posed by climate’s delayed response to human-made changes of Earth’s atmosphere. Then the annual fraud of goals for future “net zero” emissions announced at United Nations COP (Conference of Parties) meetings might be replaced by realistic climate policies. It is important, by that time, that we have better knowledge of the degree and rate at which human-made forcing of the climate system must be decreased to avoid irreversible, unacceptable consequences.

Les LLM sont devenus les pommes de terre de l'intelligence artificielle : essentiels, abondants, mais finalement peu différenciants. OpenAI l'a compris et achète la friteuse et le chef : Windsurf pour l'atelier logiciel, Ive pour l'esthétique et l'objet.

Considéré par ses partisans comme un visionnaire, Elon Musk incarne le modèle du « leader gourou ». Mais la chute des résultats de Tesla et ses prises de position controversées mettent en lumière les limites d’un leadership fondé sur le culte de la personnalité.

Ce soir-là, quelque huit minutes après son lancement de la base de Boca Chica, au Texas, le deuxième étage de la mégafusée Starship, lanceur lourd fabriqué par Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX, l’entreprise d’Elon Musk), se désintégrait dans la thermosphère à 146 kilomètres d’altitude, en raison d’un incident technique, provoquant un spectacle semblable à une pluie de météorites.

... An “acid” test of our interpretation will be provided by the 2025 global temperature: unlike the 1997-98 and 2015-16 El Ninos, which were followed by global cooling of more than 0.3°C and 0.2°C, respectively, we expect global temperature in 2025 to remain near or above the 1.5°C level. Indeed, the 2025 might even set a new record despite the present weak La Nina. There are two independent reasons. First, the “new” climate forcing due to reduction of sulfate aerosols over the ocean remains in place, and, second, high climate sensitivity (~4.5°C for doubled CO2) implies that the warming from recently added forcings is still growing significantly.

Sudden cut in pollution in 2020 meant less shade from sun and was ‘substantial’ factor in record surface temperatures in 2023, study finds

Een netwerk van burgers dat een vluchtelingengezin rechtstreeks, actief en lokaal begeleidt tijdens hun integratietraject, dat is het uitgangspunt van Community Sponsorship. Het project van Caritas en Fedasil is net uit de pilootfase. ‘Op deze manier hebben vluchtelingen meteen een sociaal vangnet.’

Une plainte contre le régulateur aérien américain a été déposée au tribunal fédéral de Washington par plusieurs organisations environnementales qui s’inquiètent de la pollution engendrée par l’explosion de la fusée de SpaceX le 20 avril.

Äerdchëff, le premier “earthship” (géonef) du Luxembourg, est sorti de terre à Redange. Un bâtiment quasiment autonome en énergie et en eau, en partie construit en utilisant certains types de déchets. Le gouvernement luxembourgeois veut en faire un projet pilote.

Are you a 'subject', a 'consumer'… or a 'citizen'? The authors Jon Alexander and Ariane Conrad argue that our societies need a new narrative, and it starts by ditching the stories sold by authoritarianism and consumerism.

Today’s oceans are a tumult of engine roar, artificial sonar and seismic blasts that make it impossible for marine creatures to hunt or communicate. We could make it stop, so why don’t we?

How is it possible to own land? The current pattern of ownership and control of land lies at the heart of many of our biggest dysfunctions: the collapse of wildlife and ecosystems, the exclusion and marginalization of so many people, the lack of housing in many cities—indeed, in many parts of the world—the lack of public space in cities, our exclusion from the countryside. The pattern of land ownership underlies all of these massive issues, and indeed of many more. Yet we rarely question it.

As climate crisis allows new maritime routes to be used, sooty shipping emissions accelerates ice melt and risk to ecosystems

The Politics of the Anthropocene' is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene, the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system and its life-support capacities. The world remains stuck with practices and modes of thinking that were developed in the Holocene - the epoch of around 12,000 years of unusual stability in the Earth system, toward the end of which modern institutions such as states and capitalist markets arose....