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DÉCRYPTAGE - La campagne présidentielle a de nouveau été percutée par un fait d’actualité majeur, suscitant de multiples réactions politiques au-delà d’une émotion collective partagée.

Top-funded fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems received an $85 million award from the federal government to advance conductors for fusion power plants.

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It's been an intense hurricane season in the Pacific Ocean, with storms spawning in assembly-line fashion near Hawaii and Mexico as El Niño conditions worsened by global warming create unusual weather.

Le gouvernement britannique invite la population à constituer des réserves pour tenir trois jours en cas d’arrêt des communications ou de rupture d’approvisionnement dans les magasins.

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By combining immediate humanitarian relief with long-term urban planning, the Durban Coalition and Gift of the Givers demonstrate how grassroots solidarity can protect vulnerable communities from extreme weather.

Blistering record heat in Europe this summer helped kill more than 50,000 people, with nearly two-thirds of that death toll blamed on human-caused climate change, a new study found.

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À cause du dérèglement climatique, il y a de plus en plus de mariages précoces et de grossesses non désirées dans le monde. Des jeunes filles de 15 à 24 ans habitant au Pérou, au Sénégal, au Zimbabwe, au Kenya et au Bangladesh ont confié leur expérience à l’ONG Plan International.

KATHMANDU, Oct 23 (Reuters)&nbsp;-&nbsp;Nepal will receive $20m in aid from the United Nations' climate loss and damage fund after the devastating flood along its border with China’s Tibet region in August, the government said late on Thursday.

Selon une étude menée par deux institutions britanniques et portant sur 854 agglomérations, les canicules de 2026 ont été beaucoup plus meurtrières que celles de 2003 ou 2022.

Madrid is fighting attempts to freeze €2 billion worth of state assets from unhappy investors.

Researchers estimate that more than 50,000 people died as five heat waves swept the continent — with two-thirds of those deaths attributable to climate change.

Scientists estimate that over 50,000 people died prematurely because of high temperatures across 854 European cities between June and August this year, making it Europe's deadliest summer heat on record.

La question de la Cisjordanie occupée agite fortement la communauté internationale, car ces derniers jour, même récolter leurs olives devient dangereux pour les Palestiniens. Des agriculteurs agressés, des arbres détruits, des récoltes volées par des colons israéliens… Les Nations unies ont recensé environ 200 attaques liées à cette récolte depuis septembre.

The UN climate fund has agreed to set aside US$20 million in aid for flood-hit Nepal, marking its first funding decision, though the money still requires final approval.

The UN climate fund has agreed to set aside US$20 million in aid for flood-hit Nepal, marking its first funding decision, though the money still requires final approval.

A Nova Scotia non-profit is asking people to "adopt" a bat in a bid to educate Maritimers about a rare species, while supporting bat conservation.

Acre apresenta projetos de conservação em evento sobre biodiversidade na Armênia Uma delegação do Acre participa da 17ª Conferência das Partes da Convenção sobre Diversidade Biológica (COP17), para apresentar experiências de conservação e buscar novas oportunidades de financiamento ambiental para o estado. O evento ocorre de 19 a 30 de outubro em Yerevan, na

The key goals of the Paris agreement will not be achieved

Ancient plants reveal that the vestiges of the North American ice sheet started expanding a few thousand years ago, but that climate change caused it to reverse course.

From off-the-scale fires in Indonesia to disruptions to the Panama Canal, predictions that this year’s El Niño would hit hard are panning out.

We now have a clearer picture of what happened in the decades following the asteroid impact that led to the extinction of almost all dinosaurs

The defence secretary says the UK needs to be ready for scenarios including impact to essential supply chains.

D’ici dix ans, l’un des plus grands glaciers du sud de l’Europe pourrait avoir disparu. L’Aneto fond à une vitesse spectaculaire, sous l’effet du réchauffement climatique. Maude Petit-Jové s’est rendue sur place pour constater l’ampleur de cette fonte et ses conséquences sur ce paysage emblématique des Pyrénées.

Délocaliser les cultures, remonter vers le nord pour installer, par exemple, un vignoble sur une terre de pommiers, en plein Calvados, serait-il une réponse possible au réchauffement climatique ? "Envoyé spécial" a suivi un vigneron venu du Val de Loire pour repartir de zéro en Normandie.

Helion now has another $225 million to help speed development of its first fusion power plant, due to provide Microsoft with electricity in 2028.

Cette somme représente moins de 0,5% du coût estimé de la reconstruction par le gouvernement népalais, soit 4,78 milliards de dollars.

Parmi les plus menacés figurent la Grande Barrière de corail en Australie, le Triangle de corail dans l’océan Pacifique occidental et en Asie du Sud-Est, la barrière de corail mésoaméricaine dans les Caraïbes, ainsi que les récifs coralliens de la mer Rouge.

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Shallow-water coral reefs are at high risk of disappearing by 2075, the IUCN has warned at a UN biodiversity conference. The loss would decimate fisheries and speed up coastal erosion

In its first global assessment, the world authority on threatened wildlife classified 96% of coral reef systems as "critically endangered."

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A postponement would clear the way for a deal to be struck on other key elements of Britain’s “reset” with the bloc.

Sollten sich andere EU-Institutionen anschließen könnte einige Verpflichtungen in der EU-Methanverordnung erst 2030 gelten.

Best case is now an overshoot to 1.8º C, accompanied by massive carbon removal.

A young family thought they had escaped the toxic legacy of Love Canal with a dream house near a creek in the suburbs. Then the men in the hazmat suits showed up.

Australia's biggest renewable energy project, which has faced financial and timeline challenges since its inception, could now cost $25 billion and is expected to be delivered in late 2029.

Without intervention, a crunch point for emergency supplies could come as soon as this winter under extreme circumstances, regulators warned.

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Dans le même temps, le climat de l'emploi poursuit son affaiblissement, explique l'institution.

La COP17 sur la biodiversité s'est ouverte lundi en Arménie. Moins connue que la COP Climat, elle attire cependant de plus en plus de participants face à une prise de conscience des enjeux.

C'est l'un des enjeux présentés par l'Unesco lors de la COP 17 sur la biodiversité. Près de 200 pays sont réunis en Arménie pour tenter de relancer les efforts de protection de la nature.

À Longyearbyen, la capitale administrative de l'archipel arctique situé à 1 300 kilomètres du pôle Nord, les 2 600 habitants ont été avertis qu'ils ne devaient plus boire l'eau du robinet en raison d'une contamination aux métaux lourds. Le phénomène est directement lié au dégel du pergélisol dans l'une des régions du monde qui se réchauffe le plus rapidement

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An estimated 1,500 people are dying prematurely in Ireland each year because of exposure to air pollution, despite the country meeting all existing European Union air-quality standards.

A dead whale washes up on rocky shoreline in Sydney's east, prompting Randwick Council to close two popular beaches.

A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. New and proposed data centers are demanding a tremendous amount of electricity. How developers and utilities meet that demand - with gas […]

Weidel said the far-right AfD is in "talks" to bridge differences with France’s National Rally that largely concern Russia.

To compete with Tesla, Rivian, and a host of Chinese automakers, GM’s fourth-gen EV platform will roll out a new central computer and electrical architecture that will debut in 2028 in the Cadillac Escalade IQ.

With a strong El Niño summer looming, modelling reveals fire seasons are 21 per cent longer than they were 50 years ago, cause $6b in damage a year, and 5.6 million homes are at risk.

Bushfires will cost the economy an average of $6 billion a year over the next 30 years, nearly triple previous estimates, a national study warns.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) hosted a training programme on incorporating climate risks into micro- and macro-level stress testing for central banks, with the participation of 25 representatives from 11 central banks in member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), alongside a delegation from the COMESA Monetary Institute (C

Businesses are warning that plans to scale back Whitehall consultations risk making engagement "exclusionary."

With the world looking likely to exceed 1.5°C of warming, the plan is now to reduce our carbon emissions after overshooting the target. What lasting damage will this have?

As sea levels rise in the eastern Pacific, they are falling around Australia and the Coral Triangle, leaving some mangroves and corals high and dry

With the prospect of an unprecedented El Niño event over the coming months, the UN is warning of widespread disruption to global weather patterns, increased drought and flooding.