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© Jorge Gonzalez
Press
Life
Environment
Earth

Decline of dinosaurs under way long before asteroid fell

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© Ifremer/CNRS
Press
Environment
Corporate
Earth

Ocean and climate: French research called on to take part in a Priority Research Programme

•    The ocean is an ecosystem under threat from global warming, pollution, resource overexploitation and habitat…

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© Jean-Gabriel VALAY/JARDIN DU LAUTARET/UGA/CNRS
Press
Life
Environment
Earth

ALPALGA: the search for mountain snow microalgae

  High elevation snow is home to previously unknown species of microalgae. Scientists have created…

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© Cornée et al.
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Environment
Earth

Colonisation of the Antilles by South American fauna: giant sunken islands as a passageway?

  Fossils of land animals from South America have been found in the Antilles.   …

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© Jean-Jacques Delannoy/Stéphane Jaillet
Press
Society
Earth

When Chauvet Cave artists created its artwork, the Pont d’Arc was already there

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© Cécile ENGRAND/Jean DUPRAT
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Earth
Space

More than 5,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust fall to Earth each year

Every year, our planet encounters dust from comets and asteroid . These interplanetary dust particles pass through our atmosphere and give rise to…

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© Jean-Baptiste Sallée, Locean (CNRS/MNHN/IRD/Sorbonne Université)
Press
Environment
Earth

Climate change has reduced ocean mixing far more than expected

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© Oscar Sanisidro
Press
Earth

Discovery of a ‘winged’ shark in the Cretaceous seas

The fossil of an unusual shark specimen reminiscent of manta rays sheds light on morphological diversity in Cretaceous sharks. This plankton feeder…

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© Lucie Maignan/IPEV
Press
Environment
Earth

Antarctica: the ocean cools at the surface but warms up at depth

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© Fred PLANCHON / UBO-LEMAR
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Environment
Earth

2 months at sea to explore the Southern Ocean’s contribution to climate regulation

To better understand the sequestration of atmospheric CO2 in the ocean, and especially how the chemical elements essential to this storage are…

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