News from IFGR and the rivers

This is the reduction of greenhouse gases that must be reached from now to 2030 to have a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C in comparison to the industrial era. The 27th UN World Conference on the Climate was held at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt to attempt to breathe new life into the combat against […]

Contrary to many communications that point to a lack of water in Africa, a report issued by the British NGO WaterAid estimates that the region has enough water to satisfy different needs, provided that the resources are managed better.       The assertion is strong: the groundwater resources of sub-Saharan Africa are sufficient to […]

On the occasion of the COP15 against desertification held in May in Ivory Coast, the UN published a new report that estimated that the duration of drought episodes has increased by 29% in barely twenty years. The impacts of the availability of water resources are very severe: this year, more than 2.3 billion people, i.e. […]

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), in its report The State of the Global Climate 2021 published on 18 May 2022, states that four key indicators of climate change – the concentration of greenhouse gas, rising sea levels, the warming of oceans, and their acidification – reached new records in 2021. The climate change before our […]

Following on from the breaching of the planetary limit for chemical pollution at the beginning of the year, a 6th limit has just been breached, that of green water, that’s to say rainwater absorbed by plants. Along with blue water, it is a basic component of the water cycle, according to the model of nine […]

It’s worse than imagined. According to a study of unprecedented scale carried out by a team of scientists from York University, pharmaceutical pollution affects every river in the world. The concentration of drugs in rivers henceforth represents a threat for both river ecosystems and human health.   A large scale study This study is exceptional […]