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For many years, many environmental protection associations and NGOs have been challenging the current agricultural world. Did you know, for example, that 1000m3 of water is needed to produce one tonne of wheat ? Or, that in France, 80% of the cereals we grow are...

Oct

OMPE launches his PFM 2018 (#PFM2018, #OMPE, #UFFFES)

Blog, Press release

As announced several months ago, the OMPE, global environmental NGO, laid the first brick of its PFM 2018 (Plan against Fires Worldwide 2018) this Monday, October 23, 2017, sending 21 invitations to the 21 ministers and governors of countries and states affected by forest fires and...

Oct

Heat waves increasingly murderous

A few months ago, France suffered a very large heat wave with an average national temperature of 26.4°C on June 21 2017 : the warmest day ever recorded for a month of June. But if these waves of heat are worrying because of the peaks...

Oct

After hurricanes : what about the situation ?

When some people think that it is necessary to know the situation before acting, others consider that it is necessary to act to know. If we transpose this view of things to the hurricanes of September-October 2017, the inaction of the States of the...

Aug

Take part in Heatwave Thermo Challenge !

Environment

In this month of August 2017, France beats record temperatures. On 21 June 2017, the first day of summer, the country had the hottest day since 1945 with temperatures approaching 38°C in many French cities. Corsica has even beaten the warmest nighttime temperature ever recorded in...

Jul

Drought : an unprecedented crisis situation

By the end of July 2017, the global drought continues its rapid and alarming progression. After Chile, India, Australia and the United States, it is the turn of Europe and Italy in particular to face dramatic episodes of drought. Very recently, an alert was launched in...

Jul

The lucrative traffic of exotic animals

Animals, Blog

The illegal trade of exotic animals is a traffic that greatly jeopardizes the biodiversity and ecosystems of the planet. While the problem is not new, it has worsened in recent decades. The trade of exotic animals is just behind… the traffic of...

Jul

Causes et consequences of forest fires

An uncontrolled forest fire can devastate everything in its path, spread for miles, crossing rivers and roads. Each year, between 60,000 and 80,000 forest fires occur, destroying between 3 and 10 million hectares. While forest fires have different impacts on the environment,...

Jul

An iceberg of 1000 billions tons is detached from the Antarctic

On July 12, 2017, an iceberg of 1000 billion tons, one of the largest ever recorded, was detached from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica. After months of alert within the scientific community, this news has the merit of reopening the debate on the alarming...

Jul

The OMPE sends an alarming signal on the forest fires

Blog, Environment, Press release

Forest fire : OMPE urgently calls for the holding of national conference ! A summer 2017 that starts under the flames ! 100,000 hectares… This is the area that has gone up in smoke in Portugal since the beginning of 2017. A figure...

Jul

Are we living the sixth mass extinction ?