News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

The world’s lowest-lying land surface, the Dead Sea is threatened with disappearance. The rise in temperatures and pumping in the River Jordan are the reasons for this phenomenon that scientists say could lead to the next ecological disaster.

This is one of the conclusions of a huge study carried out by scientists from the CNRS, CNES, IRD and the University of Toulouse III- Paul Sabatier which has for first time drawn up an exhaustive map of the world’s glaciers and their evolution. Ice is cracking and fragmenting everywhere more rapidly under the effects of climate change.

The Great Barrier Reef continues to shrink. To halt this two-decade decline, large-scale interventions are needed according to a recent study published by the Royal Society. Could one of the solutions come from a prototype designed to cool coral and thus protect it from bleaching caused by higher temperatures? It is based on an original […]

On 15 March, Suriname and France officially recognised the border drawn between the two countries on the Maroni, along more than 400 km. For both sides of the river, this agreement puts an end to four centuries of ambiguities and relaunches cooperation for better govern

Whereas water resources are strongly affected by environmental degradation, climate change and human activities, an original coalition is aiming to better orchestrate policies at the international scale and speed up the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals relating to water, via a multi-actor approach. IFGR is associated with this initiative coordinated by the World Meteorological Organisation.

Global and diffuse, plastic pollution has become a global scourge involving decomposition mechanisms and flows from the land to the sea, whose magnitude we are only just beginning to assess and understood. Rivers are at the centre of these interactions and thy must be protected from plastic pollution to prevent it from reaching the oceans. […]