CEREGE News

10,000 years of climate told through... bat guano!
An original scientific and educational mission with the participation of Yannick Garcin, palaeoclimatologist at CEREGE. What can bats tell us about the history of the climate? Quite a lot, in fact.

Printemps des Sciences 2025: a scientific immersion at CEREGE
On Thursday 3 April 2025, CEREGE opened its doors for Printemps des Sciences, a national event designed to bring science closer to the younger generation. All

Edouard Bard elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Edouard Bard, Professor of Climate and Ocean Evolution at the Collège de France and member of CEREGE, has recently been elected a member of the Deutsche Akademie.

Antarctica: a drilling campaign reaches ice over 1 million years old
An international consortium of scientists from twelve institutions, including the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French Polar Institute (Institut Polaire Français), has succeeded in reaching ice dating back over

Climate change: a threat to plankton
A new international study, led by researchers from CNRS Terre & Univers, reveals that planktonic foraminifera, micro-organisms essential to the ocean carbon cycle, are in decline.

50th anniversary of the discovery of Lucy - by Raymonde Bonnefille
2024 celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of Lucy (24/11/1974), the name given to the now famous hominid skeleton discovered in Hadar, in the Afar region of Ethiopia. This discovery paved the way

When tree rings reveal the age of one of Kazakhstan's most beautiful natural gems
Situated in the Tien Shan mountain range, in the Kolsai National Park and classified as a biosphere reserve by UNESCO, Lake Kaindy offers a landscape that is as mysterious as it is beautiful.

Why the water in the Cosquer cave remains below sea level
This article looks at air circulation in the Cosquer cave (Marseille - France), a semi-drowned decorated cave where some of the engravings and paintings from the Upper Palaeolithic are temporarily preserved.

The mystery of the underwater rings at Cap Corse
Off the coast of Cap Corse, at a depth of more than 100 metres, a fascinating discovery has intrigued the scientific community for more than ten years: more than a thousand perfectly formed rings.