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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.
Cap Corse: the mystery of the rings
Off Cap Corse, at a depth of more than 100 metres, mysterious formations have been discovered: more than a thousand perfectly circular rings measuring up to 20 metres in length.
Nature, October 2024, cover by J. Gattacecca
Nature Couv ©J. GATTACECCA CEREGE Rock family tree The cover shows a cross-sectional view of the interior of a meteorite recovered from the Mackay Glacier icefields during the 2005 field
The fragile future of the cradles of civilisation in the Anthropocene
In a review published in Nature Sustainability, an international group of scientists from Europe, the United States and Asia explores how river deltas have played a central role in the development of the planet.
Tribute to Annie Vincens
It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of Annie Vincens in Aix-en-Provence on 27 June 2024. Annie Vincens was born in 1950 in Sanga Sanga, Indonesia. Researcher
Interdisciplinary field mission to Midelt
Towards sustainable socio-environmental rehabilitation The former mining province of Midelt in Morocco, affected by structural droughts, has been undergoing profound reorganisation for some forty years. Marked by the decline of