Les mégabassines sont ces gigantesques réserves d’eau censées aider le secteur agricole à faire face au changement climatique. En réalité, celles-ci accentuent la pression sur les ressources en eau, nuisent à la biodiversité et continuent d’alimenter un modèle agro-industriel dévastateur et inadapté. Appelées également retenues de substitution, elles sont devenues un sujet de controverse majeur en France ces dernières années.
Climate change is causing unprecedented drying across the Earth — and five billion people could be affected by 2100, a new UN report has warned.
NASA satellites discovered that Earth's surface has lost enough water to empty Lake Erie two and a half times since 2015. And the problem could be here to stay.
The Atlantic Ocean's most vital ocean current is showing troubling signs of reaching a disastrous tipping point. Oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf tells Live Science what the impacts could be.
Greenland's enormous ice sheet has been struck by a "massive melting event," with enough ice vanishing in a single day last week to cover the whole of Florida in two inches (5 centimeters) of water, Danish researchers have found.
Knock-on effects could transform the Amazon rainforest into savannah