Whenever we post videos of our work in trash-filled rivers in Asia and Latin America, I sometimes see people make unkind or even racist comments about the people who live there. Things like calling them “pigs” or remarks about “brown people” that I won’t repeat here. When I read

"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved." "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." Jane Goodall was the best of us.

« La liberté consiste d'abord à ne pas mentir. Là où le mensonge prolifère, la tyrannie s'annonce ou se perpétue. » Albert Camus

It is unbelievable that in 2025, defending science has become an act of bravery.

Article long des Les Électrons Libres sur le plus grand tueur de l’histoire n’a ni crocs ni griffes : c’est le moustique 🦟 . Paludisme, dengue, chikungunya, Zika… près de 800 000 morts chaque année ! Deux fois plus que l’homme lui même (ce qui est déjà incroyable …) Et avec le

Learned something new today: 1. About half of the warming from flying comes from contrails, not CO₂ 2. Just 3% of flights cause 80% of contrail-related warming 3. Rerouting those flights to avoid contrails would increase flight time by only ~1% Via Hannah Ritchie

Youth suicide rates are rising almost nationwide trib.al/3xZeVBl

Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | Lauri Myllyvirta #CBarchive Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU

Historic: Coal has been the dominant fuel source for electricity generation worldwide since the early 20th century. This era is forever over: Renewables overtook coal in the electricity mix for the first time on record 34.3% to 33.1% ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

Does the news reflect what we die from? More than 80% of people — including surveyed Americans, Brits, Germans, and Italians — say they follow the news because they “want to know what is going on in the world around them.” It’s not just that people expect the news to inform

The immigrant son of refugees comes to the US as a penniless teenager and wins the Nobel Prize. That's America at its best.

Homophobia has declined nearly everywhere in the last 30 years.

À Martigues, un enfant de 12 ans a également mis fin à ses jours hier soir. Son corps, inanimé, aurait été découvert par sa mère : l’enfant s’était pendu à l’aide d’un t-shirt accroché à son lit. Ce drame intervient après un différend familial lié à un jeu vidéo. Il est

Over 1,500 measles cases have been reported in 42 states — a 500% increase from 2024 and the highest count in more than 30 years: newscentermaine.com/article/news/n…  (AP Photo: Julio Cortez)

BREAKING: Australia has passed a Bill that will limit the total spending on a party by billionaires like Elon Musk to Just $50,000 This will ban billionaires from single-handedly buying Elections in Australia.

London murders have fallen to 89 in the last 12 months. The lowest rate on record.

NEW: California will be the first state in the nation to sell its own insulin. It will be $11. No Big Pharma price gouging. Simple, affordable healthcare. As it should be.

In a rare show of courtesy, police departments all over the US reported that the mass protests on October 18th were overwhelmingly peaceful and posted thank you messages for protestors. Out of millions of people, only MAGA agitators were arrested. ICE stayed away due to the crowd

We cured diseases, fed billions, split atoms, mapped the genome. And somehow, people decided science was the enemy. The anti-science movement will go down as one of humanity’s most tragic self-inflicted wounds.

The Lancet propose une série d’articles sur les aliments ultra transformés (AUT) et leur impact délétère sur la santé. Les AUT ne posent pas problème uniquement à cause du sucre ou du gras. Leur danger vient d’un ensemble complexe de facteurs. Déroulons 👇 thelancet.com/series-do/ultr…