Are camembert and blue cheese heading for extinction?
• Oct 21, 2024, 2:05 PM
1 min de lecture
The COP16 summit opens this Monday in the Colombian city of Cali, with the ambition to stimulate the still timid implementation of objectives to safeguard biodiversity by 2030. But what exactly is biodiversity and what are the drivers of the collapse of species, including fungi? FRANCE 24's Julia Sieger tells us more.
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Paying the price of climate change: Louisiana's insurance crisis
• 11:51 AM
1 min
Since the storms of 2020 and 2021, many insurance companies have left the US state of Louisiana or gone bankrupt. Those that remain have increased their rates five-fold in some cases. The poorest homeowners are now unable to pay the insurance needed for
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Does Moo Deng have competition from a younger, Scottish pygmy hippo?
• 11:21 AM
1 min
PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, November 5: We take a look at the US front pages ahead of the country's landmark presidential vote. Also: what, if any, difference will the election result make to the ongoing war in the Middle East? Finally, a pygmy hippo born at
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