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Good Planet is a French-based NGO founded by photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand. This website aims to raise global awareness of environmental challenges through news, information and commentary. Good Planet hopes to advance knowledge from all viewpoints to encourage debate on how we can best protect the planet.

NEWS

Sorry, most of the news are only available in French language for the moment.

16/03/2010 • Health

FRANCE - PARIS - Des modèles de paratonnerres installés sur les lignes téléphoniques en France jusqu'à la fin des années 1970...

16/03/2010 • Aquaculture

JAPAN - TOKYO - Une entreprise nippone a débuté l'exportation de thons rouges nés et élevés en captivité, une première qui...

16/03/2010 • CITES

QATAR - DOHA - "Nous avons lamentablement échoué" à protéger le tigre, pourtant listé comme espèce en danger depuis 35 ans, a...

15/03/2010 • Greenhouse gas

MEXICO - BRUXELLES - Le Mexique a pressé lundi les dirigeants européens de débloquer les fonds promis en 2010 pour aider les...

DEBATES

Why scientists must be the new climate sceptics

New Scientist

The source of the problems is been well documented: the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, UK,...

The case of the mysterious seafood

The first victim was a Caucasian male in his late 30s. He...

Biodiversity, it’s now or never

Or so it often seems. It is easy to forget that all of...

ISSUES

Health and the environment

Environmental factors are responsible for almost 23% of deaths in the world. In developing countries, they are linked to transmissible diseases and most of them can be avoided. In the West, the risk is more a chemical one: most of the 100 000 synthetic molecules on the market throughout the world have not undergone...

	Farmed fish fill our plates Aquaculture is defined as the cultivation of cultivation of aquatic (freshwater and marine) plants and animals of...
	CITES The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna is also known simply as CITES. It...

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GREEN TIPS

Rescuing coral reefs

The « Biorock » technology for the preservation of coral species developed by Wolf Hilbertz and Thomas Goreau...

INITIATIVE

Mountain Wilderness veille sur la montagne

Lorsqu’ils ont perdu la guerre, en 1945, les Italiens ont abandonné...

VIDEOS

11/03/2010	There's some scary creatures in the ocean... none more scary than plastic....	11/03/2010	On the small Danish island of Bornholm, a coalition of governments,...
10/03/2010	Fifty percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder...	03/03/2010	One of four scenarios exploring what the world will be like for the...