News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

Rivers without glaciers ? Many rivers are glacier-dependent. Heads of source, glaciers heat up, melt and die slowly… and with them our rivers. As Dr. Heïdi Sevestre points out, the glacier contributes 25% of the dry-season flow of the Brahmaputra, irrigating 150 million people. From 2050 onwards, flows will be declining, causing water stress. The […]

On the eve of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, the French Water Partnership (FWP), CNES and IFGR are organizing a conference on water & climate change. Paris le 12/10/2020 Water is a resource essential to life but particularly vulnerable, especially to the impacts of climate change. What would a world of water at […]

Initiatives for the Future of Great Rivers (IFGR) and the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) will participate at the conference “Water at the heart of change. Accelerate to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”, organized by the French Water Paternship (FWP), French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). This […]

8th international session – 15-19 April 2019, in Cayenne and Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (Guyane, France) At the invitation of the Pasteur Institute of Guyana, and in partnership with the Prefecture of the region, the Territorial Authority of Guyana and the ARS (the Regional Health Authority), Session theme: The health of rivers, human health. The example of the […]

In the framework of the 20th anniversary of the TARA Foundation, partner with IFGR, the schooner Tara will sail up the Rhone from the Mediterranean Sea to Lyon to stop off between two phases of the Tara Europa expedition. This provides the occasion to concretise and shed light on the link between the earth, human beings, rivers, […]

We asked the Alliance Française of Dhaka to draw the portrait of the River Brahmaputra. Thank you to François Grosjean, its director, and his pupils for sharing! If the Brahmaputra were an animal It would be the wolf. Depending on the countries it traverses and the light, the river can take on various shades of […]