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La construction d'un datacenter en Utah a entrainé une opposition farouche des habitants. La course à l'IA repose la question de l'équilibre entre technologie et ressources limitées en eau, en terres arables et terres rares, en électricité. De nombreux datacenter vont utiliser des énergies fossiles.

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”.

Exclusive interview with ex-US vice-president at Cop30 also reveals his hope around much-maligned climate summit

et envisage de supprimer une découverte clé sur les gaz à effet de serre. - L’administration de Donald Trump va reconsidérer le constat officiel selon lequel les gaz à effet de serre sont nocifs pour la santé publique, une décision qui menace de détruire les fondements des lois américaines sur le climat, au milieu d’un barrage étonnant d’actions visant à affaiblir ou à abroger une foule de limites en matière de pollution sur les centrales électriques, les voitures et les voies navigables.

Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s forests be felled for timber, evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US. The president, in an executive order, has demanded an expansion in tree cutting across 280m acres (113m hectares) of national forests and other public lands, claiming that “heavy-handed federal policies” have made America reliant on foreign imports of timber.

Donald Trump’s administration is to reconsider the official finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health, a move that threatens to rip apart the foundation of the US’s climate laws, amid a stunning barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plants, cars and waterways.

Tollé alors que Trump retire son soutien à la recherche qui mentionne le « climat » - Le gouvernement américain supprime les fonds alloués à la recherche nationale et internationale sur fond d’avertissements concernant la santé et la sécurité publique.

US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety

As the world’s largest gathering of Earth and space scientists swarmed a Washington venue last week, the packed halls have been permeated by an air of anxiety and even dread over a new Donald Trump presidency that might worsen what has been a bruising few years for science.

Warning after intensification of storm aided by unusually hot ocean waters in much of Beryl’s path. Hurricane Beryl, which slammed into Texas on Monday after wreaking havoc in the Caribbean, was supercharged by “absolutely crazy” ocean temperatures that are likely to fuel further violent storms in the coming months, scientists have warned.