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The concept of ES is used to model the relationships between ecosystems and their uses. The idea is based on a simple, global observation: ecosystems supply and dispense goods to humanity, thereby contributing to human well-being through the exploitation of material resources and the enjoyment of immaterial resources. Isn't Lake Geneva a "source of life"? In concrete terms? [...]
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Ever since they arrived in Europe in prehistoric times, people have been using waterways to penetrate untouched nature. The banks of rivers and lakes, free of vegetation, were often less difficult to navigate than forests of varying degrees of impenetrability. In fact, the first farmers settled on the coasts, which [...]
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In ancient times, great minds believed that water, of vital importance, was the origin of the world, of life and of humanity. It was a pretty good idea! The idea of the Flood as revenge for man's carelessness wasn't bad either. If, by dint of playing with the climate, man causes the fragile balance between [...]
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Spring water... water of life Dear Readers, As you know, springs have fired people's imaginations since time immemorial. Fairies, spirits and mythical characters inhabit or haunt them. Despite their limited surface area, their scattered location in the landscape and their isolation, they exude an astonishing force that invites contemplation and [...]
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The climate is going crazy... but the lake is resisting! Dear Readers, As you will no doubt have noticed, Lake Geneva sometimes overflows its banks last summer. There is also a risk - and all the more so on the day when the glaciers have left nothing but pebble fields behind them - that it will offer more extensive beaches... Great, you might say! [...]
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All this aquatic vegetation, which can be found in all the world's aquatic environments (rivers, lakes, seas, ponds, etc.), produces half the oxygen on our planet (mainly thanks to phytoplankton). One of the essential functions of all aquatic vegetation is to produce oxygen, which is essential to all life. [...]
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The soil of Lake Geneva is no doormat! Dear readers, You have no idea what a treasure this soil is, which we tread on every day with our innocent (ahem) footsteps, without suspecting its preciousness, its fragility, the incredible complexity of its geology (or rather pedology), biochemistry, ecology [...].
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Touched, sunk? Plastic in Lake Geneva - what is the reality, what is the future? Issue 110 of Lémaniques in December 2018, "Le Léman n'est pas un jouet! - with its deliberately ambiguous title featuring a little yellow celluloid duck - addressed the problem of the gradual accumulation of plastics in the lake. A [...]
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Taking care of Lake Geneva, relentlessly and for the next 40 years... at least! Forty years after the birth of the ASL, against a backdrop of chronic pollution and eutrophication of Lake Geneva (excess phosphates), a pandemic crisis caused by a virus gripped the planet and shook the region [...].
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Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the dates announced in this issue for our activities and events are subject to change. Net'Léman, la grande poutze du lac Rethinking our relationship with wasteWaste is the result of an act of abandonment that reduces an object to the state of discarded material, having lost its use and emotional values. It is important to [...]
