In February and June 2020, the Fessenheim NPP respectively went through the shutdown of its first and second reactors. The question that now arises is whether the dismantling of the NPP will be significant in terms of water pollution and global warming. The PostAtomVie project consists in evaluating the environmental impacts during the last phase of the life of the…
Over the last two centuries, hydrosystems have been subjected to significant pressures like engineering works (correction, canalisation, dike and groynes building) and the contaminant releases from industries, urban areas, agriculture, transports. The fine sediments of the floodplains can be an excellent archive of past activities, but its understanding requires a fine interdisciplinary study integrating geomorphological (at different spatial scales), geochemical…
The increasing consequences of global warming are demanding behavioral changing in energy household consumption (Dubois et al., 2019). As the most significant share of the residential energy uses, heating services need to be saved and supplied by renewable energy . The development of renewable energy-based technology (RET) comes up with a higher heating generation capacity, lower ecological damages, and a…
Within a decade, environmental DNA (eDNA) has become an accepted tool in many countries for studying biodiversity, from detecting target species to describing entire communities (Taberlet et al. 2018). This expanding research takes advantage of the democratization of high-throughput sequencing to massively sequence residual DNA fragments extracted from different matrices (e.g., water, soil, faeces, sediments, archaeological remains). Recent proofs of…
La qualité des eaux en France a fait l’objet d’une multitude de normes juridiques tant aux niveaux européen, international qu’aux niveaux national et régional. L’apport de notre contribution est l’étude des relations entre un espace transfrontalier, le Rhin supérieur, et l’application de normes juridiques de protection du milieu aquatique. A travers l’exemple de deux dispositifs, les cartes d’objectifs de qualité…
Since 1945, a large amount of heterogeneous data has been acquired to survey river sediment quality, especially concerning regulatory metals such as Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, and Zn. Large-scale syntheses are critical to assess the effectiveness of public regulations and the resiliency of the river systems. Accordingly, this data synthesis proposes a first attempt to decipher spatio-temporal trends…
The ongoing spatial turn of both energy research and transition studies have highlighted the need for a stronger understanding of spatial configurations to grasp the heterogeneity of energy transition pathways. While previous works predominantly focused on territorial context inhibiting or driving renewable energy development, the dynamics of incumbent energy systems remain understudied. This is particularly the case for nuclear power,…
Aquatic environmental DNA (eDNA) studies have considerably taken off during the last 10 years, promptly establishing eDNA as a new approach to monitoring the ecological status of European surface waters. On the one hand due to the numerous biological methods based on aquatic species, on the other hand due to the development of group-specific primers that allowed discrimination between species…
The first and second reactors of the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant were shut down in February and June 2020, respectively. The idea of establishing an environmental state T0 after the closure of the Fessenheim plant arose with a view to a territorial upgrading. In this context, the issue of aquatic ecotoxicity has become relevant. The fate and effects of certain…