Can the thirst for black gold be made at any price? The extraction of the colossal reservations of bitumeux sands in the north of Alberta (Canada) makes the object of deep protests on behalf of scientists and of environmentalists. Last there dates, a report of the American Council of defence of natural resources (NRDC) gets worried about threat of [...]
This ice has to see odd animals. Canadian researchers indeed discovered, under a layer of volcanic ash, of the ice from which the age would go back up in 740 000 years, according to two independent datings. They itemised their discovery in the magazine Science, on September 19th of this year. A sign that the pergélisol, soil [...]
Question in thousand euro. What does be made when influences suspicion one of the chemical substances most used in the world, notably in the manufacture of food plastics? Debate on the bisphenol A (BPA) rebounded this week, with the publication of an epidemiological study in the prestigious Newspaper of the American Medical Association (JAMA), [...]
The rise of the oceans is a reality. From there to envisage the largeness of phenomenon, science remains still very imperfect. Until now, the consensus of the scientists made responsible by the UNO for making the state of knowledge on climate, within GIEC (1) was made on a fork from 18 cm to 59 cm of increase [...]
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