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Where is it better to live in France to be sheltered from natural disasters?

January 30, 2025

Since last weekend, Brittany and the Pays-de-la-Loire face an “exceptional situation which goes beyond the history known in matters of floods”, to use the words of Minister François-Noël Buffet, in Visit Tuesday in Rennes. Last October, Agnès Pannier-Runacher made this same observation of “never seen”, for exceptional floods in Ardèche. Extreme phenomena that have also … Read more

In Colombia, indigenous communities challenged by the drying up of the Amazon River

October 10, 2024

With food or a large container of water on their shoulders, members of the Yagua indigenous community of the Colombian Amazon walk on what was once the bed of an arm of the Amazon River, whose flow has fallen by 90% due to the lack of precipitation. Near the town of Leticia (south), capital of … Read more