News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

The Rhone is being hung on the railings of the Luxembourg Gardens, in Paris, on the occasion of an exhibition of 80 photographs, hosted by the Senate from 13 March to 14 July. The river is discovered as if on a journey from the Swiss glacier, from where it springs, to the delta of the […]

  Rivers supply essential services to society, but their exploitation by human beings has constantly fragmented them. In Europe, more than a million obstacles impede the free flow of rivers and disturb the balance of these ecosystems.    Considerable and underestimated fragmentation   The fragmentation of rivers entails modifying their ecological continuity by placing obstacles […]

Gilles Mulhauser, Managing Director of the Geneva Water Agency and member of IFGR, will host the association’s 10th international session devoted to the links between rivers, lakes and cities. Before this meeting, he shares with us his feedback on the Covid-19 crisis and the challenges facing the cities of the future. How have you adapted […]

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 […]

  8 million tonnes of plastic are discarded into the oceans every year and 80% of this plastic waste found in the seas comes from dry land.  In the European rivers studied during the scientific mission, MicroPlastiques2019, carried out by the Fondation Tara Océan, plastics were omnipresent, already in fragmented and microplastic form. And they […]

Thomas Galewski, project manager at the Tour du Valat (France), was a member of the delegation present in China, for our conference devoted to rivers and biodiversity. He was able to meet the IFGR’s international experts and many Chinese actors of the Yellow River and water resources, with the Yellow River Conservancy Commission. The following […]