Reporting from Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe, the AFP reveals the concern caused in the French Antilles by budget cuts in the USA's tsunami early warning networks, which meteorological services and local authorities in the Caribbean rely on to prepare for the natural disasters that are becoming increasingly frequent due to climate change.

Two years after the failure of its first commercial flight, the AFP reports on the first successful launch of the European Space Agency's modified Vega C rocket in French Guiana, carrying a payload of satellites, including one from the EU's Copernicus planetary observation project.

Waldemar de Laage, of Radio 1 Tahiti, reports on the work of a marine biologist based in French Polynesia – Éric Clua, the so-called "Shark Profiler" – who has developed a method of identifying specific sharks who attack humans; he wants authorities to employ his methods and thereby avoid the indiscriminate culling of sharks.

Writing in local paper, Le Dauphiné libéré, Cyrielle Thevenin explains the concept of Préjudice d'anxiété in French law, and how it pertains to the case of over 1200 inhabitants of the French Antilles who are suing the French government for emotional distress caused by prolonged exposure to the dangerous pesticide chlordecone, previously used in the islands' banana plantations.

Frédéric Gouaillard, Le Parisien's correspondent in Mayotte, reports on the psychological trauma suffered by schoolchildren in the French overseas territory in the wake of Cyclone Chido, and the efforts being made by the national education system to offer them counselling, which teachers consider to be insufficient.

In a series of translations into English of French media coverage of the French presidential elections, the result of a cooperation project between Mediapart and Lille University masters degree students in translation, this report examines why a significant number of Green party supporters are planning to cast their vote not for their own candidate, Eva Joly, but for radical-left Front de Gauche firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

In a series of reports on the French presidential elections, a group of Lille University masters degree students in English-French translation have selected and translated into English a wide range of profiles and interviews of candidates published in the French media. Their English versions of the articles, complete with glossaries and information notes, provide a rich insight into the campaign, the candidates and the manner in which the elections are reported in France.