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The Times
2026
The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.
A climate monster is growing right now in the Pacific Ocean, perhaps the most fearsome El Niño since before scientists even began modeling them. They now know the pattern quite well: A marine heat-wave in the Pacific Ocean scrambles global weather and produces in some places more intense droughts and in others more intense rainfall and flooding; disruptions to hurricane patterns and monsoon seasons, which can cause widespread crop failures; and much more punishing heat.
Environment News: UNITED NATIONS: Vanuatu will renew its climate justice fight at the United Nations General Assembly with a draft resolution that was watered down afte.
In Belem, Brazil’s leader, President Lula da Silva, opened the talks by denouncing obstructionists who “reject scientific evidence and attack institutions.” “They manipulate algorithms, sow hatred and spread fear,” he said, describing a surge in disinformation and propaganda aimed at blocking action to slow climate change. The summit, for the first time, put the issue on the agenda. A coalition of countries and international agencies issued a separate “Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change,” calling on governments to address climate disinformation, promote transparency and protect journalists, scientists and environmentalists.
2025
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
.. the real risk of geoengineering is not some Hollywood-style catastrophe, but complacency. A cheap way to delay the effects of warming risks undermining the need to rapidly reduce emissions, and going down that path would risk locking our children into a dependency where even stopping the process becomes too expensive to contemplate...
Les pesticides de synthèse provoquent des drames humains. Ils sont un danger pour la santé. Leur interdiction est devenue un enjeu majeur pour notre société.
The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good
Plus d’un an après l’annonce de la mise en pause du plan Écophyto II+, qui visait à "réduire les usages de produits phytopharmaceutiques de 50% d’ici 2025", et son remplacement par la controversée stratégie Écophyto 2030, la question des pesticides revient sur le devant de la scène parlementaire dans le cadre des débats autour de l’adoption de la proposition de loi "Lever les contraintes à l’exercice du métier d’agriculteur", dite loi "Duplomb" (du nom du sénateur Les Républicains Laurent Duplomb, qui l’a initiée). L’occasion de rappeler que les agriculteurs sont les premiers exposés aux produits phytosanitaires, ce qui n’est pas sans conséquence pour leur santé.
Legal residents of the United States sent to foreign prisons without due process. Students detained after voicing their opinions. Federal judges threatened with impeachment for ruling against the administration’s priorities. In the Opinion video above, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley, all professors at Yale and experts in authoritarianism, explain why America is especially vulnerable to a democratic backsliding — and why they are leaving the United States to take up positions at the University of Toronto.
