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L’Agence de la transition écologique (Ademe) évoque les « impacts environnementaux importants » de l’intelligence artificielle générative dans un nouvel avis publié le 22 juillet (et « rédigé sans IA générative », précise l’Ademe).

Food security (FS) remains a pressing issue at the global scale. Current literature about FS points to a plethora of causes of food insecurity, among which climate change and the loss of biodiversity are critical to all facets of food security. Building on this notion, we advocate for a comprehensive understanding of drivers of food security, thus contributing by examining climate change and biodiversity as drivers of food security. The interest in this subject stems not only from the scientific community, but also from practitioners and policymakers. However, holistic encapsulation of the relevant literature addressing this subject is currently lacking. This review systematically analyses and categorises the drivers of FS induced by climate change and biodiversity. Following the Systematic Literature Review approach, 342 peer-reviewed studies were selected and synthesised. Our findings identified 11 categories of climate change drivers and 9 categories of biodiversity drivers of FS. These drivers were found

Comment réagissent notre corps et notre cerveau aux chaleurs extrêmes? Quels risques physiques, psychiques et sociétaux font peser sur nous l’augmentation des températures? Comment faire face aux vagues de chaleur aujourd’hui et dans le futur ? Christian Clot est président du Human Adaptation Institute et auteur de “Les clés de l’adaptation humaine”, publié chez Denoël.

Scientists know how to alter our atmosphere to try and fix climate change, but doing so could bring other potential unintended impacts

Actuellement, trois quarts des modèles de simulation climatique prévoient pour l'indice océanique El Nino une anomalie d'environ +2 °C, ce qui signifie donc un "super El Nino". L'Organisation météo mondiale invite à se préparer.

Présenté comme le futur plus grand datacenter d’Europe, le projet Campus IA doit voir le jour à Fouju, un petit village de Seine-et-Marne. Derrière les promesses de développement économique, des associations alertent sur une infrastructure aux impacts environnementaux et énergétiques considérables. Un pique-nique est organisé ce dimanche pour sensibiliser les habitant·es.

Bruits, consommation d'eau, émissions de gaz à effet de serre, îlots de chaleur, instabilité du réseau électrique… Les effets des centres de données sur leur environnement suscitent des craintes, alors que ces installations sont en train de se multiplier.

Scenarios serve as a critical tool in climate change analysis, enabling the exploration of future evolution of the climate system, climate impacts, and the human system (including mitigation and adaptation actions). This paper describes the scenario framework for ScenarioMIP as part of CMIP7. The design process has involved various rounds of interaction with the research community and user groups at large. The proposal covers a set of scenarios exploring high levels of climate change (to explore high-end climate risks), medium levels of climate change (anchored to current policy), and low levels of climate change (aligned with current international agreements). These scenarios follow very different trajectories in terms of emissions, with some likely to experience peaks and subsequent declines in greenhouse gas concentrations in this century. An important innovation is that most scenarios are intended to be run, if possible, in emission-driven mode, providing a better representation of the Earth system uncert

Models are converging on prediction of an El Nino beginning this year, peaking in early 2027. After overlooking the possibility of an El Nino this year, some reporting is jumping on a “Super El Nino” bandwagon. El Nino strength and frequency are important, especially the issue of whether these are modified by global warming. However, the more important knowledge that needs to be extracted from near-term global warming concerns interpretation of ongoing, extraordinary, acceleration of ocean surface warming. Impacts of this ocean warming include a factor of two greater warming over land, increased extreme precipitation, and poleward movement of subtropical conditions.

Expérimentation à ciel ouvert avec des prairies recouvertes de Plexiglas ou bien avec des anneaux en carbone de 25 mètres, reproduction d’écosystèmes miniatures en laboratoire, utilisations de données historiques, suivis depuis l’espace, équations… Pour comprendre comment le changement climatique va impacter les écosystèmes, les méthodes sont nombreuses et souvent complémentaires.

Le climat a -et aura de plus en plus- des impacts bien réels pour les habitants partout sur le territoire français. Si agir au niveau global est essentiel, les enjeux climatiques doivent aussi impérativement être pensés et faire l’objet d’initiatives au niveau local. En fins connaisseurs de leurs territoires, les maires sont des acteurs incontournables de l’adaptation et – faut-il le rappeler – de l’accompagnement à la transition énergétique et écologique.

Alors que l’ampleur des suppressions et des créations d’emplois liées à l’IA reste peu quantifiable, les premiers impacts de cette technologie sur le travail deviennent tangibles, notamment dans les métiers créatifs ou intellectuels.

87%. That’s how much the emissions of NVIDIA (worth 5 trillion dollars) increased in 2024, as an article from TruthDig is one of the only sources in the world to point out. This means it became the world’s most valuable company by answering soaring demand for AI… whilst doubling its carbon footprint. Not to mention water: Samsung’s next ‘mega-cluster’ of GPU fabs will consume half of Seoul’s water, says the same article.

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.

Depuis les années 1970, la région de Gabès, dans l'est de la Tunisie, vit dans les fumées d'un immense complexe de transformation de phosphate, un minerai utilisé dans la création d'engrais agricoles. Dénonçant de nombreux impacts environnementaux et sanitaires, la population réclame désormais le démantèlement du site.

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is an important tipping element in the climate system. There is a large uncertainty whether the AMOC will start to collapse during the century under future climate change, as this requires long climate model simulations which are not always available. Here, we analyze targeted climate model simulations done with the Community Earth System Model (CESM) with the aim to develop a physics-based indicator for the onset of an AMOC tipping event. This indicator is diagnosed from the surface buoyancy fluxes over the North Atlantic Ocean and is performing successfully under quasi-equilibrium freshwater forcing, freshwater pulse forcing, climate change scenarios, and for different climate models. An analysis consisting of 25 different climate models shows that the AMOC could begin to collapse by 2063 (from 2026 to 2095, to percentiles) under an intermediate emission scenario (SSP2-4.5), or by 2055 (from 2023 to 2076, to percentiles) under a high-end emission scenar

Bad climate news is everywhere. Africa is being hit particularly hard by climate change and extreme weather, impacting lives and livelihoods. We are living in a world that is warming at the fastest rate since records began. Yet, governments have been slow to act.

2024 was the hottest year on record [1], with global temperatures exceeding 1.5 °C above preindustrial climate conditions for the first time and records broken across large parts of Earth’s surface. Among the widespread impacts of exceptional heat, rising food prices are beginning to play a prominent role in public perception, now the second most frequently cited impact of climate change experienced globally, following only extreme heat itself [2]. Recent econometric analysis confirms that abnormally high temperatures directly cause higher food prices, as impacts on agricultural production [3] translate into supply shortages and food price inflation [4, 5]. These analyses track changes in overall price aggregates which are typically slow-moving, but specific food goods can also experience much stronger short-term price spikes in response to extreme heat.

Planet Earth is living on borrowed time, a new global report reveals. The world must stop burning fossil fuels now and take urgent steps to reduce global warming.

Au cœur de la conférence mondiale qui se déroule cette semaine à Nice, l’océan est un élément incontournable de notre système climatique. Tour d’horizon des impacts du dérèglement du climat sur les mers du globe, et des ressources qu’elles nous offrent pour lutter.