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, was recently elected to 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, has succeeded in reaching ice dating back more than [...].
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 for the [...]
When tree rings reveal the age of one of Kazakhstan's most beautiful natural gems
Located in the Tien Shan mountain range, in the Kolsai National Park and classified as a biosphere reserve by UNESCO, Lake Kaindy offers a landscape as mysterious [...].
Why the water in the Cosquer cave remains below sea level
Cet article étudie les circulations d’air dans la grotte Cosquer (Marseille – France), une grotte ornée semi-noyée où une partie des gravures et peintures du paléolithique supérieur sont temporairement sauvées […]
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 explore how river deltas have played a central role in the development [...].
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. She was a researcher [...]