Gunboat diplomacy off the Channel Islands
The U.K. and France are engaged in a standoff over post-Brexit fishing rights around the British Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey.
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Ecologists hold up Nord Stream 2
A legal action launched by a German environmental NGO Nabu has caused the suspension of the work on the much tormented pipeline. According to Nabu the pipeline could destroy marine habitat.
Hand hygiene will remain the best anti-Covid weapon!
On the occasion of the Global Handwashing Day, this Wednesday, let’s remember that a lot of progress remains to be made, especially in Pasteur’s country, to fight against viruses. A short history of hygiene and edifying results of several scientific studies.
Covid: the Indian variant worries the world
The epidemic is out of control in India where three variants have merged to form a triple mutant that is more contagious than the original virus and resistant to current vaccines. Several countries including France are taking drastic precautions against India. But the Indian variant is already in Europe.
An incredible algae against Covid!
A team of researchers would have confirmed a preventive anti-Covid treatment by nasal route reducing by 80% the risk of contracting the disease! Explanations with two experts.
5G: no new health risks according to ANSES
The French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (Anses) considers it unlikely that the deployment of 5G will present new health risks. And launches today a public consultation with the scientific community.
Covid: meals officially incriminated
The vice is tightening around the places and situations of contamination of Covid-19. In a recent study, the Pasteur Institute targets contamination in enclosed spaces and during meals. Interview with Dr. Jean-Michel Wendling, Occupational Health Specialist in Strasbourg.
Fukushima, 10 years later: what lessons for France?
The catastrophe in Fukushima, Japan, on March 11, 2011, is a major nuclear accident that … Read more
Sahara sand cloud : a radioactive pollution
As dust-laden winds from the Sahara fly over Europe again this week, analyses carried out by the Association for the Control of Radioactivity (ACRO) show that they contain residues of radioactive pollution dating back to France’s atomic bomb tests in the 1960s.
The Lessons of a Microbe
Appeared one year ago, the coronavirus has made big damages, sanitary, economic, political in all the countries. However, it has opened our eyes to the disorders of the world and the fragility of Humanity.
KGB and Stasi spy material on display in St. Ouen, near Paris
It is an exceptional collection without equivalent in Europe of nearly 2,000 pieces exhibited for the first time in France. These often unique objects from the Soviet secret services belong to a private collection.
Vaccination : Preventing rare effects with vitamin D?
Vitamin D should prevent the potential deleterious “Covid-19-like” effects sometimes observed following vaccination according to Jean-Marc Sabatier, researcher at the CNRS. Explanations.