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Grande manifestation pour le Jour de la Terre à Québec (22 avril 2025)
Pour des transports collectifs - Manif du jour de la terre - Montréal - 26 avril 2025
https://www.pressegauche.org/Grande-manifestation-pour-le-Jour-de-la-Terre
Les caisses de retraite américaines maintiennent le cap sur le climat
Cellule dramatique puissante de tempête au-dessus de la plage d’océan
Philip Thurston / iStock
Alors que de grandes banques et sociétés de gestion d’actifs américaines tournent le dos aux objectifs climatiques, les caisses de retraite restent fidèles à leurs cibles de carboneutralité
La Suisse améliore son bilan carbone en 2023
En 2023, la Suisse a rejeté 40,8 millions de tonnes d'équivalents CO2, soit un million de tonnes de moins qu’en 2022. D’après l’Office fédéral de l’environnement (OFEV), cela représente une baisse de 26% par rapport au niveau des émissions de 1990
The Dutch have been warned not to eat homegrown eggs over forever chemicals fears.
People in the Netherlands should stop eating backyard-produced eggs due to contamination from PFAS or forever chemicals, a Dutch government agency announced Tuesday.
Earthworms may be the cause of PFAS entering the eggs, according to national public health institute RIVM.
Maybe I’m just in a bad mood.
Maybe that’s because last night I finished reading a book about the way the US Army Corps of Engineers has ravaged the Mississippi River and its ecosystems for more than a century.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-great-river-the-making-and-unmaking-of-the-mississippi-boyce-upholt/20610156
Maybe it’s because I’ve been learning about microplastics being absorbed by plants and then taken into our bodies in the food we eat. https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/114342047696921724
Maybe you’ll say I’m overreacting to all of this.
Maybe I shouldn’t feel like the Earth would be better off if the human species had never evolved. But right now that’s how I feel.
Very nice. Who doesn't love the taste of plastic? 
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Plant leaves absorbed microplastics and nanoplastics directly from the air, with the particles subsequently entering the food chain through herbivores and crops consumed by humans, a new study found.
Microplastics are defined as plastic particles measuring up to 5 millimeters in diameter, while nanoplastics are even smaller, less than 1,000 nanometers.
“Once inside the leaf, microplastics move through spaces between plant cells and can also accumulate inside tiny hair-like structures, called trichomes, on the surface of leaves,” said an article explaining the research.
The study also found that microplastics could travel through the plant’s water and nutrient transport systems to reach other tissues. However, trichomes that are hair-like appendages on cells acted as ‘sinks’ that trapped external particles, thereby limiting the transport of plastics from leaves to roots.
“Given that leaves are a key part of the food chain, microplastic particles that accumulate here can easily pass to herbivores and crop leaves, both of which can be directly consumed by humans,” the article noted.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-biodiversity/microplastics-in-air-enter-plant-leaves-pass-to-animals-humans-study
La plus grande usine de biochar du Canada démarre
L’usine industrielle de biochar Carbonité, la première du genre au Canada, a commencé sa production en février dernier à Port-Cartier, au Québec
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2156616/carbonite-carbonity-usine-biomasse-biochar
Pour la première fois, la température moyenne annuelle en Tunisie atteint 21,5 °C, dépassant la moyenne annuelle (1991-2020) de 1,6 °C. L’année 2024 a été la plus chaude jamais enregistrée depuis 1950, a annoncé l’INM.
Les écarts par rapport à la normale des températures (minimales, maximales et moyennes) ont été supérieurs aux normales durant tous les mois
https://www.tunisienumerique.com/2024-lannee-la-plus-chaude-en-tunisie-depuis-74-ans/
Les prévisions météo mondiales menacées par les coupes de Trump: “Nous constatons une baisse des observations météorologiques”
Les agences météorologiques mondiales s’inquiètent de l’affaiblissement de leur partenaire américain, la NOAA, particulièrement ciblée par l’administration Trump. Les conséquences se font déjà sentir au niveau international
Si le phénomène a connu un répit tout relatif en 2023 et en 2024, les tempêtes de sable, qui se déclenchent généralement au printemps, ont empiré tant en nombre qu'en intensité ces dernières années en Irak, un des cinq pays au monde les plus vulnérables à certains effets du changement climatique et à la désertification
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/environnement/20250415-irak-3700-patients-soign%C3%A9s-pour-des-troubles-respiratoires-%C3%A0-cause-d-une-temp%C3%AAte-de-sable
"Un enjeu de santé publique": 4,2 millions de Français sont fortement touchés par l'éco-anxiété, selon une étude
Cinq politiques pour sortir les énergies renouvelables de l’ombre
Voici des promesses politiques que des entreprises d’énergie renouvelable aimeraient entendre
1– Constituer un réseau électrique national
2– Maintenir la taxe carbone industrielle
3– Des aides financières durables
4– Maintenir le libre-échange
5– Petits projets contre méga-infrastructures
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2156451/solaire-eolien-electricite-souverainete
Deadly floods and storms affected more than 400,000 people in Europe in 2024
European State of the Climate report ‘lays bare’ impact of fossil fuels on continent during its hottest 12 months on record
Data Dive: Worries About Climate Change Spiked On Maui After 2023 Fires
Residents of Kauaʻi County were the least likely to feel that global warming had — or might one day — impact them personally.
In the year following the devastating fires on Maui, the island’s residents became increasingly worried about the impacts of climate change
'Epitome of exploitation': Climate activists rally against Seattle cruise season
Climate activists took to the waterfront ahead of the 2025 Seattle cruise season
Wisconsin sees record start to the fire season as climate change drives more blazes
Official: 'We've never had this many fires in January and February ever in the state of Wisconsin'
https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-wildfires-record-climate-change-drought
EU’s 2040 credit line risks bankrupting the climate
In fact, using such flawed credits will increase emissions overall since, as envisaged by the EU, they would substitute domestic action
https://carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/04/14/eus-2040-credit-line-risks-bankrupting-the-climate/
The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom
—Nature
｢ 1.9 million Americans were exposed to ≥0.1 μg/m3 of additional PM2.5 pollution from Bitcoin mines, often hundreds of miles away from the communities they affected. Americans living in four regions—including New York City and near Houston—were exposed to the highest Bitcoin mine-attributable PM2.5 concentrations (≥0.5 μg/m3) with the greatest health risks ｣
