Author: Laura Berny

Laura Berny is Les Echos Weekend magazine’s editor-in-chief. She has been working for the French business daily for 22 years.

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Geopolitics Green

Longyearbyen Postcard: World’s Northernmost Town Facing Climate Change — And Russia

A statue of a coal miner stands in the center of the photos with houses surronding it, draped around their shoudler is a Ukrainian flag. The environment is snowy and the sky is white from clouds.
A Ukraine flag placed on a statue of a coal miner in the center of Longyearbyen Steffen Trumpf/dpa/ZUMA

The melting of the sea ice in the Far North has accelerated in recent years. The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard has become the focal point of the environmental drama gripping the Arctic as well as the geopolitical tensions it is causing there, with Russia in particular.

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Future Green

Inside Copernicus, Where All The Data Of Climate Change Gets Captured And Crunched

A photo of Sentinel-2 floating above Earth
Sentinel-2 orbiting Earth ESA/ESA

As COP28 heats up, a close-up look at the massive European earth observatory program 25 years after its creation, with its disturbing monthly reports of a planet that has gotten hotter than ever.

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