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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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Towards sustainable socio-environmental rehabilitation The former mining province of Midelt in Morocco, affected by structural droughts, has undergone profound reorganisation over the last forty years. Marked by the decline of