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10.27.2025
In August 2025, the Geneva Summit on plastic pollution once again failed to reach agreement on an international treaty, due in particular to a lack of consensus over recycling and its limits. This...
Article
05.22.2023
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have been criticised for the huge amounts of electricity required to make them secure. Researchers are exploring new pathways towards more virtuous blockchains.
04.18.2023
Now that negotiations for an international treaty aimed at strengthening protection of the oceans have successfully concluded in New York, Pascale Ricard, a specialist in international environmental...
Article
01.23.2023
As we now know that diseases originate from a combination of genetics and the environment, research on the exposome aims to characterise all the environmental determinants of health.
Article
11.17.2022
From robot rebellions to climate apocalypses, science fiction envisions the consequences of our actions and societal choices in a more or less near – and often discomforting – future. In so doing it...
06.21.2022
How can a building's structure be optimised in order to adhere to exacting security standards, all while reducing its environmental impact? This is the challenge faced by scientists in the...