News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

Despite a preoccupying situation at the end of April, the perspective of a major drought for summer 2020 has become less ominous for France. However, for Poland and the United States, the situation is particularly worrying. At the end of April, the American journal Science published the conclusions of research carried out by the Earth […]

Since 2017, IFGR has constantly spoken of the interaction between rivers, seas and oceans, with a key problem: that of plastic pollution. 80% of the macro- and microplastic waste measuring several millimetres in diameter present in salt water comes from the land (runoff and rivers) and represents a volume of about 8 million tonnes a […]

Mid-October, the Rhine in Germany reached its lowest known level, due to months without rain and temperatures above 30°C this summer. Its level at Cologne fell to 77 cm. Over 1,200 km long in a watershed covering 196,300 km², the fact that the Rhine crosses national borders and gives access to the sea makes it […]