News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

In their report made public on 8 October, the UN’s climate experts presented the impacts of an increase in global temperature of 1.5°C in comparison to the preindustrial era. This scenario is the most probable between 2030 and 2052 at the current rhythm of CO2 emissions, although the scenario of a 2°C* increase cannot be […]

x4: the number of human disasters linked to the climate over the last 40 years This result of climate change is known: 400 disasters, i.e. 4 more than in the 1970s, were caused by climate deregulation in 2017. They include migrations of populations, famine, and increasing risks of conflict. Source: International Committee of the Red […]

Climate change is disturbing territories and threatens their water resources. What reactions are necessary? The aim of our 7th session (from 15 to 19 October at Toulouse and Bordeaux / France), devoted to the Adour-Garonne basin, is to provide new solutions. This summer, the temperatures of our thermometers again rose to new heights and drought […]

Interview with Franck Vogel, photographer, journalist and film director.   Trained as an agronomic engineer, Franck Vogel became a photographer after a voyage around the world that changed his life. Now a photographer, he travels to discover rivers and their populations and expresses their problems through his images. Interview with the author of Fleuves Frontières […]

From the Rocky Mountains to its delta in Mexico, the Colorado River flows for more than 2,300 km and crosses seven states. It provides drinking water to more than 40 million people and irrigates more than 10,000 km2 of farms dedicated to intensive agriculture (alfalfa, cotton, cattle), including some located in the middle of the […]

A world first At the end of August, the world’s leading shipping company, Maersk, announced the dispatch of one of its ships, the Venta Maersk, from the port of Vladivostok in Russia to Saint Petersburg via the north route. It is the first container ship to take this route, which has long attracted the interest […]