A wildfire that has been blazing through the pristine Torres del Paine national park in Chile since Thursday has forced authorities to shut down the park throughout January, at the peak of the hiking season. Over 100,000 people visit it every year.
France’s growing wolf population is good news for environmentalists – but the feeling is not shared by the country’s livestock farmers. This week they get a measure of revenge as a rare wolf-hunting license is issued.
A colorful tarantula that hurls its excrement at enemies, a tree that looks like it grows spaghetti, and a frog you can see right through... If it sounds like Mother Nature playing a practical joke well think again!
Dealing with manmade pollution but also catastrophic accidents, nature, it would appear, has the power to overcome dire conditions. ENVIRONMENT looks at how our world recovers from oil spills, wildfires, industrial waste and nuclear accidents
A unique experiment gets underway in the South of France, as researchers start to create what the earth’s atmosphere may be like by 2050, if CO2 levels double. ENVIRONMENT visits Ecotron to see how our ecosystems and organisms might adapt to climate change.
In today’s international papers we look at the continuing violence in Kyrgyzstan, Cameron and Brown’s bid to win over female voters and the unsolved murder of French woman Sophie Toscan du Plantier in Ireland dating back to 1996 – France is now hoping to extradite the chief suspect. FRIDAY, 9th APRIL, 2010
Mount Nyamulagira, the volcano that destroyed much of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002, has erupted again, threatening the Virunga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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.
