Imagine going to pick mushrooms in the forest and suddenly sinking into a pit filled with plastic. In 2008, that's what happened to a woman who was crossing land belonging to Nestlé Waters near Vittel, in eastern France.
The deep sea possesses an almost cruel gift: it retains what men prefer to forget for a long time. It also does this with shipwrecks, metal and the military memory of the Cold War.
A large-scale operation led to the discovery of a clandestine breeding farm in the Var region of southern France, where hundreds of animals were living in conditions deemed incompatible with their needs.
In 2018, the European Commission launched a public consultation on the matter, gathering responses from 4.6 million European citizens: 84% were in favor of abolishing the double time change.
With 50.52% of the vote in the second round, Emmanuel Grégoire is the new mayor of Paris, and the city, at least for now, remains true to its progressive history.
As the crisis in the Middle East continues to spread chaos, the priority is not only to repatriate people in the Gulf countries, but their pets as well.
For more than four decades, the ocean along Panama's Pacific coast followed a precise and reliable rhythm. Between January and April, cold, nutrient-rich water masses rose from the depths, feeding the marine food chain and protecting coral reefs and local fisheries. In 2025, however, this mechanism came to a sudden halt. The Panama upwelling didn't take place, leaving scientists without historical references and questioning the stability of tropical ocean systems.
In recent years, microplastics have gone from being just an environmental problem to a very real presence inside the human body.
We see them on the ground, on sidewalks, at the edge of gutters. Then the rain comes, cars go by, seasons change, and after a while they're gone. Or rather: we no longer see them. Because in the meantime, they've simply changed shape.
For more than forty years, no rhinos had been seen in northeastern Uganda. The Kidepo Valley National Park had to do without one of its most iconic animals after poaching entirely wiped out the species in the early 1980s.