> Closing the trilogy opened in August 2021 – with its report on the "Science of climate change"  followed in March 2022 by that on "Impacts and adaptation" –, the IPCC is publishing its new report on "mitigation" on Monday 4 April 2022.
Initiated in 2018, this report, signed by 278 scientists from all over the world, sets out the state of scientific knowledge on options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions ("mitigation" in the title).

> The Ebola disease seemed on the verge of being brought under control in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and now a new virus, COVID-19, is spreading to the surface of our planet and sowing its share of dead.

> While at the end of August, the G7 meeting serves as a platform for President Macron to castigate the environmental policy of his Brazilian counterpart, the publication of a NASA satellite photo showing the outbreak of fire on the surface of the globe raises a wider controversy. Africa seems to be much more affected than the Amazon and many Internet users are moved by it.

> Easter Island is mainly famous for its monumental statues (the moai), its unique Oceanian script (the Rongo-Rongo) and the mysterious collapse of its civilization which fuel speculation and fantasies.