Biodiversité

Un nombre croissant de linguistes et de sociologues commencent à évoquer les déplacements de populations humaines liés aux conséquences du réchauffement climatique - en particulier la montée des eaux et certaines catastrophes naturelles devenant à la fois plus fréquentes et plus intenses - comme un facteur significatif, pour les décennies à venir, de déclin des langues parlées, rapporte le Guardian.

Global models of tide, storm surge, and wave setup are used to obtain projections of episodic coastal flooding over the coming century. The models are extensively validated against tide gauge data and the impact of uncertainties and assumptions on projections estimated in detail. Global “hotspots” where there is projected to be a significant change in episodic flooding by the end of the century are identified and found to be mostly concentrated in north western Europe and Asia. Results show that for the case of, no coastal protection or adaptation, and a mean RCP8.5 scenario, there will be an increase of 48% of the world’s land area, 52% of the global population and 46% of global assets at risk of flooding by 2100. A total of 68% of the global coastal area flooded will be caused by tide and storm events with 32% due to projected regional sea level rise.

The study focused for the first time on the impacts that plastic pollution has on animals that live on land and in freshwater environments, in the Asia-Pacific region. The study included case studies on the Ganges and Mekong river basins, which together contribute an estimated 200,000 tons of plastic pollution to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean every year.

Pour protéger ses récifs coralliens la Thaïlande a interdit l'utilisation de certaines crèmes solaire composés de produits chimiques qui détruisent le corail.

L’Asie-Pacifique est la région du monde la plus exposée aux catastrophes naturelles. Ses vastes littorals et son territoire constitué en grande partie de petits États insulaires à faible dénivelé la…