At the foot of the Pilat dune, the shovelters are agitating, moving huge blocks of stone. The objective? Rebuilding the tip of the dike (called the MUSOER) of the cornice, which no longer protected the highest dune in Europe, leaving the water rushing into the beach, which came to attack the natural building. Basin#Arcachon : … Read more
This is the lowest altitude measured since annual measurements began in 2009. The Pilat dune, the highest dune in Europe, was recorded at 101 meters at its highest point in 2024, the company has just announced. observatory of the New Aquitaine coast. 2.9 km long and 616 m wide, the famous dune which dominates the … Read more
The Coubre lighthouse located at La Tremblade near Royan in Charente-Maritime, threatened by the advance of the ocean, will have to be demolished without being relocated, we learned on Monday from the Interregional Directorate of the South Sea Atlantic. “We are in the projection, in the study of a possibility. Without installation schedule »Christophe Mérit, … Read more
On this January morning, on a beach in Teste-de-Buch near Arcachon (Gironde), nearly a thousand withered Christmas trees are converted into windbreaks to contain the advances of the ocean. Each year, a team from the National Forestry Office (ONF) supervises around ten children, aged 10 to 12, to store these conifers on the dune cut … Read more