Learn more What’s next for Australia’s water management? 15 March 2020 International monitoringInterview Murray-Darling Australia’s water management futures are again under discussion as drought impacts and bushfires hit communities. Water and ecological system limits are being reached resulting in fish kills and dwindling water levels in storages. Awareness is also rising around the inequities in current water governance regimes for First Peoples across the Australian continent and beyond*. […]
Learn more From oceans to rivers: the new challenge of Ocean Cleanup against plastic pollution 3 March 2020 InnovationInternational monitoring Boyan Slat, a young Dutch inventor and entrepreneur, had already become a world-famous celebrity at 18 years old with his ambition to clean the oceans of pollution, especially plastic waste. This gave rise in 2012 to « The Ocean Cleanup » project, based on the principle of a huge barrier capable of collecting plastic waste floating on the […]
Learn more A deeper navigable channel for the Mississippi 29 February 2020 International monitoring Mississippi The Army Corps of Engineers has just obtained funding from the American Congress of more than $160 million for infrastructure projects in Louisiana in the framework of its Work Plan 2020. $85 million are devoted to increasing the depth of the navigable channel of the Mississippi to 15 metres (about 2 metres deeper than today) in its […]
Learn more Climate change: will the Colorado soon dry up? 20 February 2020 International monitoring Colorado A river that no longer reaches the sea: this is already frequently the case of the Colorado, which flows into the Gulf of California. And every additional degree will exacerbate the drought affecting this huge river, 2,330 km in length, that supplies water to seven American states. A study published in the journal Science in mid-February revealed […]
Learn more Map of Europe shaken by climate change at the end of the 21st century 17 February 2020 International monitoring The European Environment Agency has launched an original and complicated exercise, made public in mid-February: foresee the future at the end of the 21st century to imagine what life will be like in Europe, under the effects of climate change: rising sea level, torrential rainfall, episodic droughts, forest fires, etc. In order to better […]
Learn more Key figure: the energy sector emitted 33 billion tonnes of CO2 in 2019 14 February 2020 International monitoring After two years of rising, energy related greenhouse gas emissions stagnated in 2019, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) published on Tuesday 11 February . About 33 billion tonnes of CO2 were emitted, as much as in 2018, despite global economic growth of 2.9%.
