In this edition: Augustin Trapenard on Rob Schultheis and Rick Bass, Studio Clamp's twentieth anniversary and a play performed by residents of a psychiatric hospital at the Avignon Festival.
Interior design is now becoming ecologically friendly. Not only can plants be used to brighten up rooms; they can also help clean up the air. And here, at Vertilignes, they are even used to decorate the walls.
Though culling elephants is prohibited in Central African Republic, for the majority of people living in this vast country, they represent a stable source of food and revenue. And their protection is far from being the country's top priority.
Experts have 'rediscovered' a species of cockatoo thought to be extinct on Java Island. The ten yellow-crested abbott's are the species's last living wild specimens on Earth and are highly endangered by illegal hunting for pet trade.
Chitwan Park in south Nepal is the largest rhinoceros reserve in Asia. In the last census seven years ago, the park had over 600 rhinoceros. Some 150 have died since, killed by poachers who sneak into the reserve.
As the category 3 hurricane made its way across Texas, more than one million residents evacuated coastal Texas. US Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff said that Ike is "a worst case scenario."
Residents of the Haitian city of Gonaives are struggling to find food after hurricanes Hanna and Ike. FRANCE 24 visited the main police station, where inmates from the destroyed prison were moved under terrible conditions. Some images are graphic.
US President George W. Bush declared a state of emergency in Texas on Wednesday as Hurricane Ike strengthened again into a category two storm en route to the southern US coast after deadly rampages in Cuba and the Caribbean.
After making a second landfall in Western Cuba, Hurricane Ike is now on its way to Texas. The storm ravaged eastern parts of Cuba on Monday, killing at least 4 people and causing an estimated $3 billion to $4 billion in damage.
After four major tropical storms battered the Haitian city of Gonaives in less than four weeks, rescue teams are struggling to deliver aid as the humanitarian catastrophe continues to unfold in the area.
