Environment

The first type of trap uses a blood-like substance to trick mosquitoes into entering, and a second where water at the bottom tempts them to lay eggs

Tarmac Aerosave, based across the runway from Tarbes Lourdes airport in Hautes-Pyrénées, is the world’s number one for aircraft and engine recycling

France accounts for 22 of the 59 entries on the international Green List, recently adding seven new areas

Zéro Waste France head Juliette Franquet said if people were 'throwing out two masks a day, that meant 400 tonnes of waste a day'

The green 'lézard ocellé' – known in English as the ocellated or jewelled lizard – was once common across southern France but is becoming increasingly rare

Whilst wild camping is legal in France, it is strongly regulated and campers should follow certain rules

Neonicotinoid pesticides are banned across the EU as they leak into soil and water sources and kill pollinating insects

'People's first reaction when they see a snake is to kill it – which is now illegal', says snake expert Matthieu Berroneau

What the Grand-Est mayor saw allowed him to identify who had dumped the rubbish

The Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat is made up of 150 volunteers randomly selected from the public to brainstorm ideas to tackle climate change

The country is to take another step towards the end of single-use plastic packaging from January 1

Breakthrough for French ornithologists as the vulture species, once thought to be extinct, now has around 2,000 breeding couples around France

A new waste collection payment system is being gradually introduced to residents in one department of France – the more bags you throw out, the more you pay.

French company MéGo! is the first of its kind in Europe to recycle cigarette ends into useful end products

Expanding Paris is threatening gardens which, for over a century, have been oases of green, reports Mike Diliën

A peaceful rural landscape described by Marcel Proust in A la recherche du temps perdu could be surrounded by 150m wind turbines unless literature-lovers win a last-gasp fight.