News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

A river that no longer reaches the sea: this is already frequently the case of the Colorado, which flows into the Gulf of California. And every additional degree will exacerbate the drought affecting this huge river, 2,330 km in length, that supplies water to seven American states. A study published in the journal  Science in mid-February revealed […]

The European Environment Agency has launched an original and complicated exercise, made public in mid-February: foresee the future at the end of the 21st century to imagine what life will be like in Europe, under the effects of climate change: rising sea level, torrential rainfall, episodic droughts, forest fires, etc.   In order to better […]

After two years of rising, energy related greenhouse gas emissions stagnated in 2019, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) published on Tuesday 11  February . About 33 billion tonnes of CO2 were emitted, as much as in 2018, despite global economic growth of 2.9%.

The North Pole is warming twice as quickly as the rest of the world, and is thus at the front line of the climate emergency. But why is the Arctic warming more than the tropical and temperate latitudes?   Methane and halogenated compounds One of the reasons lies in halogenated compounds such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) […]

The researchers of 6 organisations have grouped into a consortium* to develop an early warning system to help predict potential conflicts linked to water since violence caused by water scarcity is increasing around the world. A third of the world’s population currently lives in countries subject to high levels of water stress, with droughts that […]

Solar energy provides electricity and clean water – a little known function at present. This is what the NGO Give Power  has developed. It was founded in California in 2013 (United States), with an innovative system that uses solar power to desalinise seawater. The system was experimented last year at Kiunga, a Kenyan fishing village on the […]