Senegal: overfishing is taking its toll

Published on : 16/09/2022 – 16:56 In Senegal, where the waters abound with fish, fishing is the main export sector, providing a living for more than 600,000 people. So when the Europeans and the Chinese set up their greedy fishmeal factories on the coast and factory ships offshore, the consequences are dramatic. Guests : – … Read more

Waste electrical and electronic equipment: a plague for Africa

Published on : 11/03/2022 – 13:25 “Consume, consume, there will always be something left! Some 34 billion electronic objects circulate on the planet. Once broken, deemed obsolete or unused, they generate mountains of waste electrical and electronic equipment that is dangerous for the environment and health. These D3E, as they are called, now weigh nearly … Read more

“The uranium of anger”

Investigative journalist Martin Boudot has followed the uranium route: from Niger, where it is blasted from the mines of Arlit to Narbonne, in the south of France, where it is converted into fuel for nuclear power plants. The observation is the same: soaring levels of radioactivity, residents exposed, worried, victims of long-term poisoning and who … Read more

Climate: the structure of the ocean is changing

Published on : 17/02/2022 – 15:00 The ocean stores and redistributes enormous amounts of heat around the globe through sea currents, but climate change is upsetting these balances at the surface and at depth. For example, the Gulf Stream, this marine current that moderates the European climate is slowing down. Report by Samuel Turpin in … Read more

Hubert Reeves: the Earth seen from the heart

He spent his life with his head in the stars, observing galaxies to understand how the universe works. But at 85, astrophysicist Hubert Reeves is worried. Will man continue to damage this planet to the point of making it uninhabitable? He alerts us through a documentary La Terre vue du cœur, directed by Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol, … Read more