What's happening above our heads when soots produced by the combustion of the coal and of the oil get old in the atmosphere? A suèdo-American team brings the beginning of answer, in the Annals of the American Academy of sciences (1). By getting old, soots suffer chemical and geometric transformations which reinforce their capacity in [...]

More than hundred million persons ingest too much arsenic, notably in Bengladesh and in India. A team of Eawag, a Swiss research institute on the water, tried to raise a card of risks which covers every the southeast Asia. Published in Nature Geoscience of July 10th, this modelling will allow to target the analyses of [...]

How to eliminate the depleted uranium, the not very radioactive but very toxic metal, which pollutes some soil? By growing filamentous mushrooms there, answers the biologist Marina Fomina, of the university of Dundee (Scotland), which discovered that not only these mushrooms grow very well in the presence of this metal, but also that they can transform it. In [...]

The congress of Breathing 2007 Enghien was held from 9 till 11 November. The doctor Claude Gaborit, president of the medical society of Enghien, recalls consequences to the health of the air pollution there. Length: 8 ’19". © Breathing of Enghien

A debate with Corinne Lepage, ancient Minister of the Environment, lawyer and president of Cape 21. Lasted 20 ’27". © Breathing of Enghien.

The water, this has such a common air But without her, no life. And yet this liquid wealth exhausts itself, having threatened by pollution and dryness. Economise, clean up, recycle: let us explore solutions to save her. Length: 119’ © Science Frontières