On the Shetland Islands, home to numerous colonies of several tens of thousands of birds each, “bird flu” is wreaking havoc. Corpses, notably gannets and skuas, are regularly discovered near colonies, particularly on the sites of Hermaness and the island of Noss. According to the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds), the “impacts of highly pathogenic avian influenza on wild birds are rapidly escalating in the UK and Scotland with reports of thousands of dead or dying birds. "...
This epidemic is particularly worrying to the extent that it hits bird colonies during the nesting period: it is feared that the young will die en masse, either through the absence of their parents who died of this disease, or through their own contamination. As for the survivors, they could, after the summer, facilitate the spread of the virus, by dispersing or during autumn migrations...

The presence of the wolf was detected in the Jura massif in 2003, eleven years after its official return to France in the Alpes-Maritimes in 1992. At that time, an attack on sheep at Plans d'Hotonnes, in Ain , should have been the trigger for a broad reflection on the conditions for anticipating and supporting this return. Twenty years later, Canis lupus is making headlines again by attacking young cattle. Both sides of the border separating France and Switzerland are affected and the unrest caused by the return of the predator has gained momentum since 2022. The victims are no longer counted only among the sheep but Montbéliarde is impacted. Intolerable in the stronghold of the sacred cow! Patrice Raydelet, founding president of the Pôle Grands Prédateurs, wrote “The wolf and the cows in the Jura massif” released in December 2023.

The Kogis are a people of northern Colombia. For these last descendants of one of the greatest civilizations in Latin America, this coastal massif represents the heart of the world, "Mother Earth", from which comes the moral and spiritual code which orders their civilization, and to which they rituals and offerings to maintain balance and harmony with her.
Their knowledge was sought during a “cross-diagnosis of territorial health” which was held in the Rhône basin, from its Swiss glacier to its French mouth. A particularly urbanized river basin affected by the effects of ecological crises. By combining the knowledge of indigenous peoples and the scientific community, the challenge was to study how to act to restore ecological balances, to identify alternative ways to preserve and restore biodiversity through new practices and reading grids. This meeting brought together five Kogis and around fifty scientists and experts from different disciplines.

In 2023, the Bird Protection League (LPO) released its report on ten years of observations of birds in our gardens. Discover the top 20 most present birds and the trends between 2012 and 2022. The great tit is still in the lead, but the wood pigeon has taken 8 places, pushing back the nuthatch and the greenfinch... It is an operation of scale, because 95,418 gardens participated in this giant inventory, 114,103 hours of observation, or 16 years non-stop!

Breaking news summer 2023: the Antarctic sea ice is disappearing at an unprecedented rate and is not even recovering in the middle of the southern winter: more than 2.6 million km² are missing this year, which represents the biggest deviation from normal situations ever observed whatever the season, and this after a year 2022 with melting records never before mesured. The thinning of what remains is such that the sea ice now risks in the very short term no longer being able to maintain itself at all in summer, a new planetary tipping point preparing to be exceeded before our eyes.

What if this aquatic reserve of more than 450 hectares, originally created to guarantee the water supply of the towns and villages of the South-East of the Var and those of the extreme West of the Alpes Maritimes, became a huge wasteland? Totally dried up, in the next ten or twenty years, leaving us as a legacy only stumps of dead trees, decrepit boats covered with cracked mud...
Apocalyptic or eccentric vision, alarmist and unrealistic statement? However, according to a study reported on the site of the general council of the department of 06, an increase in temperatures is expected up to 2.1°C by 2030, 3.1°C in 2050 and 5.2°C in 2080.
Following a prefectural decree, to date and since March 31, 2022, the fountains, symbol of life of towns and villages throughout the department and even beyond have been silent, consequences of streams, rivers, groundwater already at the lowest before the summer.

Burning is used in the Basque mountains to maintain the pastures of summer pastures and moors that cannot be mechanized by shepherds. The advantage is the ashes of the incineration which promote the regrowth of many plants which will be grazed by livestock in the summer. Cattle thus have access to quality pasture, and contribute to maintaining open landscapes and biodiversity.

Whether it is fauna or flora, a foreign species that is found in our ponds or our rivers can quickly take pleasure in it and, in the absence of predators, proliferate. The famous Florida turtle, the American crayfish, the zebra mussel which covers entire drop-offs of Lac du Bourget... Man sometimes struggles by uprooting actions, against the beautiful water primrose and its yellow flowers, against the cane of Provence, the mowing of the dense muse who escaped from the aquariums...

"Later, you will be a garbage collector" is the catchy title of the book that Ludovic Franceschet released in 2022. At 47, and after 10 years of wandering as a homeless person in Paris, Ludovic was hired as a garbage collector in 2017. He then begins to put on social networks his observation on the garbage of the capital. "Throw in the trash" is its simple message, a good resolution, not very complex, to implement for 2023!

The drought of 2022 has consequences for the fauna of rivers in the Alps such as the Verdon and the Bléone. The latter has adoux, these derivations which allow the animals to take refuge. But the threat also comes from dams made for pleasure by humans. Find images of white-clawed crayfish, an endangered species, including a blue individual due to a mutation, a snake swallowing a trout and the rare and little-known Rhone apron.

Each year the Vendée river is invaded by a dense Egeria plant, native to South America, popular in aquariums, it is gradually gaining ground in the west of France. Its spread poses serious problems. It covers the surface of the water and prevents light from reaching other aquatic plants. Invasion leads to a decrease in the number of native animal or plant species with which it competes. It also affects water quality. The dense Egeria also creates nuisances on leisure activities such as paddleboarding, not to mention the rods that can wrap around the propellers of motor boats. Each year, municipalities and towns crossed by rivers must call on cutting companies. Unfortunately, these interventions must be repeated each year. The effectiveness of these interventions is currently being evaluated.

Summer 2021, the Var hinterland is devastated by fire. More than 7,000 hectares burned on the Plaine des Maures nature reserve, a jewel of biodiversity and a unique natural site in the world. The verdant cover has disappeared, leaving trees with bruised trunks, black branches, on bare ground. But with the September rains, there are the first regrowth of plants, such as the dwarf iris, animal life, a couple of Hermann's tortoises, endangered, are able to fast while waiting for regrowth.

On the island of Oléron, to clean the beaches, you don't need a 4x4! the soft method was chosen with a donkey which allows the waste to be transported. It's been ten years that the "donkeys of Oléron" pass on the beaches, helped by a few volunteer tourists.

Plastic straws have been banned in France since January 2021. Straws made with the grass Lepirona articulata in Thailand are an ecological alternative. It does not soften and retains its shape and stiffness in hot or cold drinks.

The birth of this Breton wind turbine took place in two phases. A first where the elements were preassembled and the second in situ where the "tube" was mounted then the blades came to be fixed.

Annemasse wastewater treatment plant: Pollution control and methanization plant with a treatment capacity for an agglomeration of 120,000 people. The center also treats edible oils, a collaboration project with neighboring Switzerland is underway to treat micro pollutants.

With its characteristic frowns, its steep, multi-lobed front, its unstable boulders, the rocky glacier is a spectacular mixture of ice and stones which flows slowly along a mountain slope. It is thus distinguished from the white glacier, consisting entirely of ice, and the black glacier covered with rock debris.
The Southern Alps contain superb rocky glaciers, such as that of Asti (Queyras), those of Marinet (Haute Ubaye) or those of the circus of Sainte-Anne (Queyras).
But for the activity of such a glacier to continue, the annual average air temperature must imperatively remain below -2 ° C. Will the rocky glaciers of the Southern Alps all become inactive with climate change?

The weather is hot, dry, thunderstorms will arrive eventually and episodes of rain Cevennes may be at the rendezvous ... Professional storm hunter Xavier Delorme returns on a night in October when he realized the hunt to the most terrible storms he has ever experienced. Impacts took place very close to him and he had the chance to take pictures of the "leaders", that is to say the electric currents that go up from the ground, only a few meters from a house! He also immortalized a powerflash, ie a short circuit on an electric pole because of a lightning impact on the pole behind him at 50m.

Listen to the forest, observe a grass with a new eye and know how to give it a name, know the animal that came to nibble a pine cone ..., here is part of the day of environmental awareness organized by the Regional natural park volcanoes Auvergne to the tourist service providers of the territory. The Pinatelle forest in Cantal was the setting for this day.

Aquaponics is an innovative technique resulting from the double competence in fish farming and natural pools set up in 2018 by the Anjou aquaculture farm which is managed by Valérie Zimmermann. The system makes it possible to combine the production of fish and market gardening in a way that is both intensive and biological, coupling them in a closed circuit!
In fact, ornamental or consumption fish are raised in ponds whose water is purified on a substratum of clay balls, or other neutral substrates, by aerobic bacteria that transform fish droppings. in nutrients for the vegetable garden installed at this place. The water thus purified is returned to the fish, which ensures a low water consumption of the whole.
The technique adapts to both individuals through elegant basins adaptable kit from balcony to garden and industrial production especially for urban farms that produce fish and vegetables on site.

In Chami, a new town located in the middle of the desert between Nouakchott and Nouadhibou, thousands of gold miners, often organized as a family, artisanally extract gold from the rock. After crushing, the powdered rock is passed over a makeshift screen, carpet strips. Gold is finally captured by agglomeration with mercury, a product dangerous to humans and nature.

Three kilometers of climb in the mist and lush vegetation lead to the top of Kawa Ijen. We then discover a steep path, inside the crater, leading to the sulphur mine and the acid lake. It is through this passage through the rocks that the porters go up the sulfur harvested on a man's back!

Water is precious, at our scale, we can act to preserve it. Here are some tips: setting up a consumption reducer on tap, recuperating cold water while waiting for hot water, bottle in the flush toilet to decrease the amount of water, even a dry toilet! It is possible to install a rain water reserve in its garden..

A Calcès, dans les Pyrénées-Orientales, l'Arc Iris a un générateur dernière génération avec trois fours, qui permet d'obtenir de l'énergie. des écoles, aux politiques, en passant par les particuliers, tout le monde peut aller visiter ce centre de tri et incinérateur.

Gorges flooded, devastated homes, the flood of September 9, 2002 has wreaked havoc.

Dans les Pyrénées-Atlantiques, la Lyonnaise des eaux s'active pour rendre les eaux usées en eau potable. Voici toutes les étapes de cette transformation miraculeuse.

La mer peut geler, c'est ce qui est arrivé en baie de Somme. C'est tout un paysage qui se transforme:marais gelé, neige sur la plage et écume transformée en glaçon.

In the Eastern Pyrenees , the company installs fences Furlong foolproof. Discover the stages of the replacement of old fences.

A Franco-British oil company has operations around the world . Visit of the gas in the region Ozangue Gabon.

In the Aude , many hunters neighboring departments take their hunting card in Aude border to practice their passion, wood-pigeon hunting . In the Aude , it stops late March while elsewhere , it stops late January because the LPO broke the order of " nuisance species destruction."

The construction of the viaduct cove Vesse had adverse consequences of rockfalls from the quarry . For several years, some huts facing the sea , affected by the communal order of risk are pending demolition or eviction.

Specializes in the design , manufacture and washing reusable cups , Ecocup quickly became indispensable partner of all concerned events of the environment. Established for almost ten years, the company has a system set at € 1 , made ​​in exchange for the drink in the late evening.

During the ten-drain this lake located in Burgundy, is the memory of the two hamlets Pelus Blairgowrie and we deliver to the surface. Heap of stones which were houses, old bridges that span the Yonne and Houssière who return to their natural bed time. In this colorful desert, rediscover their original confluence.

The Committee Communal Forest Fires Montesquieu is the only active in the department of Pyrénées-Orientales, to the chagrin of its president, Alain Guittard, who hopes to see this voluntary initiative from 1986 to emulate for different ranges and different municipalities of this department.

North of Amman, capital of Jordan, is the center of ecological research Badia. Beyond the small zoo that is home, this veterinary center is an educational site created in 2000 by the Al Khair Cooperative to educate the Bedouin population of the region. The center also plays a major role in protecting the fragile desert ecosystems.

In Wallonia, many areas have been planted conifers, therefore, biodiversity has greatly reduced. The LIFE program has managed to convince the owner to plug the drainage and restore ponds. This is how 24 large ponds and more than 2,600 small appeared.

In Yvelines, a factory specialized in recycling old fabrics that can not be resold. It is an insulator called Metisse is obtained.

Since 2003, the tires are obliged to follow a recycling. After grinding, they are found in the form of sheet or structural damping in the playgrounds.

Near the island of Contadora, Panama, men and women release the green turtle nets and other plastic waste.

Collection of measured data on the fauna collected during a sampling campaign carried out by officers of scientific ONEMA (National Water and aquatic environments) on watercourses in the Somme in Picardy in northern France.

At the heart of the Andean mountains, a primary school is meeting the challenge of giving birth tree species native to Patagonia. After a terrible fire that destroyed part of the National Park Los Alerces in 2008, the project took on a new dimension: the reforestation of the area burned.

Proposed ski resort and infrastructure for customers (1400 beds etc ...) abandoned in 1993 by the promoters. The station Saint-Honoré in 1500 is today the symbol of the race to the white gold, absurd projects that have been launched without having seen the lack of snow and climate change.

Originally from the United States, the crayfish is classified as harmful in France. In general, the fishing is permitted year-round and is highly recommended!

Beekeeping is threatened by the Asian hornet, an invasive species which thrive in France. See photos of bees attacked struggle in their hive, removing nests of hornets.

The balloon can obtain measurements such as temperature, humidity, wind strength and this can be until a height of 35km! A very long and high travel for a helium filled balloon!

From 4 to 6 June 2010, find all the news from solar energy: race car, solar oven ...

Eruption of volcano Turrialba, Costa Rica, follow the volcanologist analyzing the seismic records.

In Burkina Faso, Green Cross affect both the direct management of water as the creation of wells, pumps or irrigation systems, and longer term actions such as reforestation. Among the different actions, the establishment of local composting sites can improve the soil to be more fertile and retain water better.

Assembling the pieces of wind in Tunisia. Clean energy available in many countries!

In Gabon, the Wildlife Conservation Society has established a track mandrill. Yves Mihindou and Salvador Bivigou follow their movements.

In India, follow the completion of briquettes that can build houses.

Patrick Correia, using the President of WWF denounces the conditions of life. The poor beasts are moving headlong on the rubble. Without shade, where the animals seek shelter from heat, and make return to their watering trough and desperately empty and dry.

In the heart of Regional Park Scarpe-Escaut, technicians Park and NFB working to preserve wetlands. Careful monitoring of populations of newts has been established: the capture by "bottle traping" can identify these amphibians. The comparison between the 2008 study and the 2009 has put forward a regression of these endangered species ...

This ecological sewage system can accommodate wildlife: coot, teal .. Wildlife and livestock: sheep black face for the maintenance of the surroundings and highland pony for other spaces. Releases of the station are valued: biogas and mineral mud dried for the green spaces of Rochefort.

Daniel Riffet, geographer and photographer followed the workers and engineers exploited Gabon. Management has been revised to make it more sustainable, better training of workers is ensured. The resulting wood obtained certificates that come under the eyes of European consumers.

A study was conducted in the Charente in the marshes of St. Fraigne. The objective is to know the potential fish from the wetland. Electric fishing can stun the fish, it must be done by an expert! The fish are recorded and measured before being released (apart from some like the sun-pole). Nearly 300 photos on the subject!

This work "Roc Y Agua" allow to give prominence to river pollution. white show oxygen whereas black see problem...