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POPSCreating insignificant events -Futuristic art Vincent Callebaut 'work was lately exhibited in Paris ; ;" To believe in the world means to create events, even insignificant ones, that gets out of control, or create new space-times, even in reduced surfaces or volumes"
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POPSWorld’s Largest Marine Reserve...Last Intact Coral Ecosystem A 164,200-square-mile ocean wilderness will conserve one of Earth’s last intact oceanic coral ecosystems. Kiribati consists of 33 islands scattered across 2,400 mi of the Pacific Ocean near the equator. It includes 8 of the 11 Line Islands, including Kiritimati (formerly Christmas Island), as well as the Gilbert and Phoenix groups and Banaba (formerly Ocean Island).
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POPSFrench Polynesia Our little ship, drawing over two metres, and also conscious of this potential to wreck and ruin, approaches their first one together with some trepidation.
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POPSFrench Atomic Bomb Test Photos from 1968 Never-before-seen 40-year-old pictures of French atomic bomb tests have surfaced on the internet and they are simultaneously beautiful and terrifying. The epitome of historical human achievement and wanton destruction combined in one split-second. These are four scanned pictures of hardcopies I possess of the French nuclear test codenamed Canopus, which was fired on 24th August 1968 in the Fangataufa Atoll. The French army had those pictures taken on site. Full-size links: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 .
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POPSCan We Live Without "Made In China"? I remember way back, when France conducted extensive nuclear testing at the Mururoa Atoll , we boycotted buying anything French. That was hard enough, but try avoiding "Made in China". It's practically impossible!
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POPSIslands in the swim The recently released UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report says the following about the effect on sea level rise on "Small Islands": "Small islands have characteristics which make them especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change, sea-level rise and extreme events," the report said. "Sea-level rise is expected to exacerbate inundation, storm surge, erosion and other coastal hazards, thus threatening vital infrastructure, settlements and facilities that support the livelihood of island communities." It's happened already: