News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

Many cities around the world are rediscovering their rivers. Vancouver, Hamburg and Chicago are emblematic examples where urban planning is being revitalised around rivers, lakes and ports. A place at which 4 large rivers converge (Arakawa, Sumidagawa, Edogawa and Tamagawa), meshed by more than 100 rivers and canals under its asphalt and neon lights, Tokyo […]

Increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a global health risk that may kill 10 million people by 2050 according to the UN. Rivers could play in role in increasing this risk, since antibiotic pollution in the environment is the main source of development of resistant genes in humans. The first study at international level   […]

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 […]

The water level may rise by 2.4 metres from now to 2100. That is the new estimate of the rise in the water level established by about twenty scientists, who have reassessed the risks linked to the ice-melt of the Antarctic and Greenland in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of […]

Initially scheduled for 12 April 2018, “Day Zero” signalled the day when the city of Cape Town was to run out of water. How did Cape Town succeed in escaping the disaster announced? What can we learn from the mode of water management implemented during this critical period? Avoiding disaster Confronted by the urgency of […]

Which of IFGR’s works stands out for you and how do you think you can continue them?   Our session was organised with the Pasteur Institute of Guyana, a member of IFGR and with the collaboration of the Prefecture of the Region, the ARS Guyana and the Territorial Authority of Guyana. We present here their […]