Europe, un continent bouleversé

Europa. Kontinent im Umbruch

Europe At A Crossroads

Europa, un continente en transición

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L'Europa in transizione: la dipendenza energetica

Our dependence on fossil fuels has never been more painfully obvious than now, as prices soar in the wake of the war in Ukraine. But the issue is more than economic and geopolitical. We're living in a climate emergency, and decarbonisation of the continent is urgent. The European Union's Green Deal aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Can it be done?

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Energy For All

The European Union's Green Deal aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Can it be done?

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Driven to produce ever more and less expensively, European breeders and farmers are exhausted. Despite the terrible effects of intensive agriculture on the environment and health, the European Union continues to give subsidies to large farms. Contributing indirectly to global warming and deforestation, our meat consumption has increased by 60% in sixty years. How can we sustainably feed more than 500 million Europeans? From north to south of the continent, different avenues are being explored: organic or urban agriculture, crops assisted by artificial intelligence, synthetic meat... Are we on the verge of a new green revolution?

The Green Revolution

Organic or urban agriculture, crops assisted by AI, synthetic meat... what is the future of food?

While Europe has developed gigantic infrastructures to keep up with the flow of goods and people, the continent must now deal with saturated urban roads, underserved regions, and soaring petrol prices. As the demand for transport increases, so does its carbon footprint. It's one of the leading sources of CO2 emissions. How can we make Europe's transport sector accessible and green?

The Transport Revolution

As the demand for transport increases, so does its carbon footprint. Can we make Europe's transport accessible and green?

Europe seems to be lagging behind its American and Chinese rivals when it comes to the digital economy. Fake news, insecure employment and data theft have all proliferated under American digital hegemony where just a few private companies dominate the digital world. However, some European countries such as Sweden and Estonia are paving the way for European digital sovereignty.

Digital Transformation

Europe seems to be lagging behind its rivals when it comes to the digital economy. Can the continent reach digital sovereignty?

Europe at a Crossroads

The humanitarian catastrophe triggered by the war in Ukraine and the complex reception structures for refugees created in record time show how contradictory Europe is when it comes to refugees. Some are welcomed with open arms, others are rejected. But foreign workers play a crucial role in the European economy, even if Europe seems to do its best to keep the majority of economic migrants out.

The New Europeans

Why are some refugees somehow more deserving than others?

The climate crisis and the loss of biodiversity dramatically highlights how badly we need to change our relationship with nature. We take you to the melting glaciers in the Alps, the plastic-polluted coasts of Greece, the blue butterflies in the meadows of England, and to the primary forests of Romania. Here, Europeans are looking for ways to find a new balance with nature.

Conservation Across A Continent

Europeans are looking for ways to find a new balance with nature

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The planet's jet streams are being affected by rising temperatures in the Arctic. These streams are part of a wind system that circulates at high altitude around the Earth, and they have an influence on extreme weather events. Changes in them are bad news for life on Earth.

How Climate Change Makes Storms Worse

Changing jet streams are bad news for life on Earth

Winds of Change

Since the 1990s, total insect biomass has declined by 75 percent. The rapid decline affects all food chains: fish and birds can no longer find enough to eat and are becoming fewer and fewer. Studies show that neonicotinoids used in pesticides aren't just destroying the insect popualtion, but also affect human health.

Since the 1990s, total insect biomass has declined by 75 percent

How Chemical Giants Destroyed our Ecosystem

A look at how we are getting better at managing and conserving water supplies in drier parts of our planet like southern Spain, Israel and the desert city of Las Vegas.

Water

 A look at how we are getting better at managing and conserving water supplies in drier parts of our planet like southern Spain, Israel and the desert city of Las Vegas.

Good News From Our Planet

The Basque Country loves eels. It used to be a poor man's dish, but over the years it's increased in rarity and with it, in price. It's now a delicacy only eaten on special occasions. For the eel seller Jon Otamendi, this should be a very lucrative business. And yet the industry still can't make ends meet.

Party Menu

Eel fishing should be a very lucrative business. And yet the industry still can't make ends meet

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Fifty years after man's first small step, the promise of colonisation and tourist trips to the Moon seem almost within reach. But is the moon ready for us?

Living on the Moon

The Moon and Us

We attribute all sorts of powers to the Moon... And while its influence on our life on Earth is undeniable, its powers are not necessarily the ones we think.

Living with the Moon

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Humans like to observe and examine the Moon, down to its smallest features. Its seas and craters have all been mapped out and even its mysterious dark side should soon reveal its secrets.

Observing the Moon

The Moon and Us (3/5)

Lunar eclipses, super moons or pink moons, our lunar satellite offers us an array of surprising spectacles.

Admiring the Moon

The Moon and Us (4/5)

Where does the Moon come from? Mythology and science have each come to their own conclusions.

Making Sense of the Moon

The Moon and Us (5/5)

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Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish perform at Hellfest 2022.

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Just a few weeks before the release of their new album, The Sick and the Dying… and the Dead! Thrash metal stars Megadeth perform at Hellfest 2022.

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Punk rock fans note: The Offspring have released a new album: The Californians perform tracks from their latest work at Hellfest, Let the Bad Times Roll.

The Offspring

Dutch band Epica returns to Hellfest to present Omega, a new album showing off their inimitable symphonic heavy metal sound.

Epica

Brazilian cult band Sepultura is back at Hellfest! They unleash their intense thrash metal in front of a white-hot audience.

Sepultura

Known for their incandescent, fiery performances, Swedish black metal band Watain perform their pyrotechnics at Hellfest 2022.

Watain

JInjer are Ukraine’s official ambassadors of metal. Led by the voice and charisma of singer Tatiana Shmayluk, they are bringing their special blend of progressive groove metal to the world.

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What does it mean to be a man in the modern world? Jan goes in search of answers on the streets of Berlin where he meets barbecue grillers, American football players and queer foresters.

Be a Man! - But How?

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As soon as weightlessness sets in in Earth orbit, everything floats, including bodily fluids. Most astronauts suffer from space sickness – similar to seasickness. You get sick, your eyes go crazy, your face swells up, your legs get longer and after a few sleepless nights (there is no day or night in space) many astronauts get severe back pain. Space researchers are trying to understand how the human body reacts without gravity. Could we need it to live?

Are We Ready for Mars?

What would happen to our bodies if we were all suddenly exposed to weightlessness in space?

42: The Answer to Almost Everything

With their latest album Soul on Fire, The Last Internationale brings a rebellious spirit to the main stage of Hellfest 2022.

The Last Internationale

Hellfest invites a heavyweight of crossover and thrash metal: Los Angeles natives Suicidal Tendencies make the main stage tremble!

Suicidal Tendencies

According to the latest calculations by the OECD, South Korean women could live to be over 92 years old on average in 2070, and men over 89. That would be a world record. What's the secret?

South Korea: An Obsession With Health

South Koreans are on track to be the longest-lived people in the world

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According to the myth, the Greeks managed to enter the city of Troy by building a wooden horse in which was hidden Greek soldiers. How much of this story is based on actual historical events? And if the story is true, was it even a horse?

The Mystery of the Trojan Horse

The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad sits between Lithuania and Poland. Once German East Prussia, it is now home to 1 million Russian citizens. What is life like in this small territory now practically cut off from its EU neighbours since the war in Ukraine began?

Kaliningrad: Putin's Enclave

The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad sits between Lithuania and Poland and is now practically cut off from its EU neighbours since the war in Ukraine began.

The trio led by Matthew Bellamy is one of the most explosive and creative forces in rock music over the past two decades. There is no one else quite like Muse. Be impressed by their committed performance at Berlin’s Tempelhof Sounds Festival.

Tempelhof Sounds 2022

 There is no one else quite like Muse. Be impressed by their committed performance at Berlin’s Tempelhof Sounds Festival.

Muse

The ‘Operation Hotel’ revelations back in 2018 revealed that the Ecuadorian government was spying on Julian Assange, taking refuge in their London embassy at the time. But recent evidence from Spanish authorities suggests that it was in fact American intelligence that sponsored the surveillance. With the USA currently trying to extradite Assange from his London prison to be tried for the disclosure of hundreds of thousands of top-secret documents on WikiLeaks, the global Assange story, murkier than ever, is ongoing.

Global Assange

The WikiLeaks founder is currently fighting extradition to the US where he faces charges that could result in a 175 year prison sentence

Pittsburgh punk band Anti-Flag have been going strong since the late 1980s. They bring their anthemic sound at Hellfest 2022.

Anti-Flag

On the French Caribbean island of Martinique , large-scale use of insecticides caused serious damage. But the earth is being revitalised by several initiatives inspired by age-old agricultural practices. 

A Documentary by Florence Lazar

Revitalising the Earth

In Jordan, on the site of one of the world's first settlements, archaeologists have unearthed treasures including a sumptuous pearl necklace for a little girl. An object that provides clues about life in the Neolithic period.

Neolithic Treasures from Jordan

In Jordan, on the site of one of the world's first settlements, archaeologists have unearthed treasures including a sumptuous pearl necklace for a little girl. 

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