Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Fytoplankton, de basis van zowat alle leven in de oceaan, bevat steeds minder eiwit en meer vetten en koolhydraten. Dat komt door de opwarming van het zeewater.

Op de Noordpool probeert een Nederlandse start-up om het poolijs dikker te maken met behulp van pompen die zeewater opspuiten tijdens de winter. Kan dit werken? En kunnen we er de klimaatverandering op een of andere manier mee helpen stoppen? De meeste wetenschappers zijn tegen, maar de initiatiefnemers vinden dat we elke optie moeten onderzoeken nu de klimaatcrisis steeds groter wordt. "Wij zijn hier ook maar ingestapt als bezorgde burgers".

According to the Associated Press, the Trump administration last week proposed a set of rollbacks that would decimate the country’s waterways. Legally, Trump can’t just undo the Biden-era rules on a whim. Instead, his EPA has started work on a convoluted workaround, which includes state-level enforcement delays and revisions to the original regulations.

Jeudi 26 mars, le parquet a requis la peine maximale contre Nestlé Waters, jugé pour avoir maintenu des montagnes de déchets près de Vittel, dans les Vosges. Le délibéré sera rendu le 27 mai.

Alors que le géant de l’eau minérale est poursuivi pour avoir laissé se décomposer des milliers de bouteilles en plastique autour de ses sites d'embouteillage dans les Vosges, plusieurs pièces cruciales ont été invalidées par le tribunal, lundi.

Le procès de Nestlé Waters concernant une pollution liée à des décharges illégales de plastiques dans les Vosges s'ouvrait ce lundi 23 mars devant la chambre correctionnelle du tribunal de Nancy. Un vice de forme a conduit le président du tribunal à prononcer l'annulation des résultats d'analyses du laboratoire mandaté par le parquet. Un coup dur pour les parties civiles.

Most research on “forever chemicals” focuses on how best to remove them from the environment. But solutions to tricky problems often emerge from the most unexpected of places—as demonstrated by a new study that instead redirects the pollutants into becoming tools for extracting precious lithium. In a recent Nature Water study, a team led by Rice University researchers describes a novel way to use spent perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, to recover lithium from high-salinity brine pools. The team tapped into the fluorine content inside PFAS leftovers, using it to attract lithium from briny water. Remarkably, the team was able to collect lithium fluoride at 99% purity and confirmed that the sample was pure enough to boost the stability and performance of lithium-ion batteries.

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

De wereldwijde opwarming van de oceanen kan de hoeveelheid beschikbare vis met 19,8% doen afnemen. Dat toont een nieuwe studie in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Nature aan.

The Gulf Stream is part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The AMOC is a tipping element and may collapse under changing forcing. However, the role of the Gulf Stream in such a tipping event is unknown. Here, we investigate the link between the AMOC and Gulf Stream using a high-resolution (0. 1°) stand-alone ocean simulation, in which the AMOC collapses under a slowly-increasing freshwater forcing. AMOC weakening gradually shifts the Gulf Stream near Cape Hatteras northward, followed by an abrupt northward displacement of 219 km within 2 years. This rapid shift occurs a few decades before the simulated AMOC collapse. Satellite altimetry shows a significant (1993–2024, p < 0.05) northward Gulf Stream trend near Cape Hatteras, which is also confirmed in subsurface temperature observations (1965–2024, p < 0.01). These findings provide indirect evidence for present-day AMOC weakening and demonstrate that abrupt Gulf Stream shifts can serve as early warning indicator for AMOC tipping.