Climat d'urgence

The shanty towns of Dhaka are overflowing with climate refugees, victims of natural disasters in their own country. In the south, rising sea levels are forcing farmers to reinvent themselves or develop new techniques.

In Senegal, rising sea levels and coastal erosion threaten local populations, forcing some to inhabit precarious camps. Agriculture has suffered severely from desertification, endangering food security.

In just a few years, Australians have had to deal with the aftermath of extreme droughts, unprecedented floods and mega forest fires, but there are men and women fighting to try and avoid the next disaster.

Au Japon, il n'est plus rare de voir le mercure atteindre 50 degrés ; ces chaleurs extrêmes obligent les habitants à se mettre à l'abri, les riziculteurs à redoubler d'ingéniosité et les entreprises de construction à fournir des vestes climatisées.

A few weeks before the attacks on 7 October, Vincent Graton visited the shores of the Dead Sea and discovered the impact of the inexorable evaporation of this gigantic salt lake, which is endangering the jewel of the Judean desert.

In Alaska, global warming is accelerating the melting of permafrost, directly threatening infrastructure and homes. Engineers are hard at work to find innovative solutions to stabilise the soil.