News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

The aim of the initiative, led by the city of Ile St Denis (Paris), is to improve water quality in the small arm of the Seine, by testing low-tech solutions for treating the water discharged by the barges in the small arm, so that the 90 boats parked there can be equipped (experimentation with different […]

Vedettes de Paris proposes a more virtuous form of river tourism : “To reduce our impact on the environment, our project is to electrify 80% of our boat fleet, i.e. 4 out of 5 boats. Our first boat, the Paris Trocadéro, has been electrified since the end of 2023. Two other boats are in the […]

What is the future of large cities as climate change progressively makes water rarer and more precious, and demographic growth bears unprecedented pressure on urban areas? Bertrand Warnier, a French urban planner and member of the Academy of Architecture, in collaboration with Philippe Rivas Enquist, another urban planner from North America, and Drew Wensley, a Canadian […]

  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 […]

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 […]