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
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 [...].
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 [...]
Interdisciplinary field mission to Midelt
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 the [...]
History of climate since the year one conference
Organised by Edouard Bard, Professor at the Collège de France, CEREGE Aix-en-Provence See also Edouard Bard, Chair in Climate and Ocean Evolution History of the climate since the year one. A tribute to [...]
The Arbois Science Village celebrates its 20th anniversary!
The Arbois Science Village celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with a Science Festival on the theme of the Ocean! The CEREGE (Centre de Recherche et [...]