Then, this planet, what is waited for to prevent superheating? The British daily The Independent ventured in an opinion poll at the climatologists. A questionnaire had been addressed in December to know which opinion the harbingers of climate have from the géoingénierie. A discipline which dreams to frustrate the global warming by [...]

Corals obviously in good health of the Big Barrier saw their growth distinctly decelerating since 1990. Difficult to find reason.

On December 26th, 2004, a terrible tsunami swept the Indian ocean, killing more than two hundred and twenty thousand persons, and destroying the underwater funds near the affected coasts. Four years later, the reconstruction of the swept Indonesian regions is almost finished. According to the international Federation of the Red Cross, 97 % destroyed houses would have rebuilt [...]

It has the air of nothing, but there is a deposit of natural gas which does not reject carbon dioxide, or almost. The systems of illegal securement of the methane of In Salah (Algeria) separate gases and re-inject CO2 in basement. Every year, these would be not less than eight hundred thousand tons of this gas [...]

Every year, leaves fall in autumn, go shopping to them feminines offer regimes near the summer and the environmentalists chase the Japanese whaling fleet in December. And if Greenpeace chose to leave its ship with quay this year, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society of the pirate of seas Paul Watson hired [...]

While the European Union had to soften its "packet-climate" to satisfy all States, the techniques of géo-engineering of climate appear more and more as an appeal to struggle against climatic warming. But in Australia, a report of the co-operative Research centre on Antarctic climate and ecosystem (ACE-CRC) casts doubt on [...]

The earthquake prediction is far from being a precise science. Also, everybody hopes that the researchers who publish their analysis of situation geophysics in Sumatra in the magazine Science of this week make a mistake. According to this international team (the United States, Indonesia, Taiwan, Singapore), several large-scale jolts could happen in the course of [...]

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 [...]

Reality sometimes takes amazing positions. While they often recall the programmes of methane caused by the thaw of the boreal soil, researchers show that the Nordic marshes also liberate some gas when they freeze, in autumn.
The humid lands of high degrees of latitude are an important source of programme of methane in the atmosphere. A consequence of [...]

After long years of scientific studies, the health authorities of islands Feroe (Denmark) recommend to the population not to use whale's meat anymore. In reason, their too extremely pollution in mercury and PCB, toxins for organism.