Provence & Côte d’Azur: PACA honey production fell by 40% in 2013 as a third of bees disappear each year Côte d’Azur bee keepers are in fear for their livelihood as bee populations continue to […]
Category: Science & Technology
High-tech hotels for senior tourists
Provence & Côte d’Azur: Menton to establish a new comfort standard for travelling seniors The city of Menton is opening itself to a brand new market for tourism thanks to a cooperation project between La […]
Storm Stephanie bears more bad news
100 millimetres of rain expected from Storm Stephanie in disaster-hit Var region The Var is on high flood alert once again as a storm hits the south of the region. Several rivers are expected to […]
Olympic Greenwashing
NGOs sever ties with the Olympic Games Today marks the beginning of the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia. And thanks to another dominant controversy surrounding the games, environmental concerns have gone largely unnoticed. Prince Albert […]
Floods acknowledged as natural disaster
Residents of 42 communes have 10 days to get natural disaster relief from their insurance companies The floods resulting from last month’s record breaking downpour have been officially recognised as a natural disaster in 42 […]
Power gone with the wind
A week after disastrous floods in the Côte d’Azur, strong winds destroy weakened infrastructure Strong winds in the Alpes Maritimes worsened the damage wrought by last weekend’s heavy rain. 10,000 homes were left without power […]
License to surf the web
Primary school in Drap opts into prevention programme teaching basic Internet caution Children at a primary school in Nice are the first in the Côte d’Azur to undertake a course that will award them with […]
Lab horses allegedly sold as meat
Eleven months after Spanghero, a new horse meat scandal rocks southern France As if the recent horse meat scandal weren’t enough, 21 people have been arrested across the south of France for allegedly trafficking horses […]
Thirty one pollution sites identified on the Côte d’Azur
Polluted water tables represent 80% of localised pollution sites in France Heavy metal pollution, cyanide, solvents, hydrocarbons… products that have been found in soil along the French Riviera. Among the 31 pollution sites on the […]
Alleged vaccine side effects stir controversy
Health complaints from Marseille, Toulon and all over France put Gardasil vaccine under scrutiny Monaco’s government is pushing ahead with its recommendation that young women receive the HPV vaccine, despite a France-wide controversy over its […]