France's carbon dioxide emissions have increased slightly between 1990 and 2007, the most recent year for which figures are available, despite efforts to curb greenhouse gas pollution, the ministry for sustainable development said on Thursday.
Illegal fuel dumping, leaking oil, industrial pollution...In Gibraltar, the population and the ecosystem are under threat. France 24 investigated how and why this was allowed to happen.
Relief ships returned to BP's damaged Gulf of Mexico oil well and moved ahead with preparations for a well "kill" operation on Sunday, after having briefly evacuated the area due to a tropical storm.
An emergency alarm that should have alerted workers aboard BP's Deepwater Horizon rig of its impeding deadly explosion was muted by managers who didn't want to be awakened during the night by false alarms, a rig technician revealed on Friday.
A court in Amsterdam has fined Swiss-based Trafigura one million euros for exporting hazardous waste to Ivory Coast and seeking to conceal the cargo's lethal nature.
Genetically modified salmon that grows twice as fast as the natural kind could soon be given the FDA stamp of approval for human consumption in the US, but the Frankenfish is not whetting everyone’s appetite. Meanwhile, sounding the alarm over the Seine: authorities say fish swimming in the French capitals river should not be eaten. But what happens further down stream when this river enters the sea?
French company Ecoceane has finally been authorised to send a dozen innovative de-pollution vessels to help with the clean-up effort of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP upped estimates of the total cost of the Gulf of Mexico Oil spill so far to 2.65 billion dollars, reporting on Monday that it had spent 300 million dollars on clean-up and containment efforts over the weekend alone.
