The first World Glacier Day, and the International Year of Glaciers 2025, encourage us all to take action to preserve the vital role of glaciers in sustaining life on Earth for generations to come.

Over the past few months, our planet has been ìmpacted by intense solar flare activity on the Sun. This phenomenon, which caused the polar auroras that recently lit up European skies, could also disrupt a number of industries. To better predict such solar storms, scientists are hard at work developing the emerging discipline of space weather.

Over 5 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea dried up, giving way to a salt flat stretching as far as the eye could see. A look back at the Mediterranean basin’s last great hydrological crisis. 

From 4 to 14 October, the "Fête de la Science" invites you to immerse yourself in an ocean of knowledge.

Forests cover a third of the world's land surface. Although they provide us with invaluable services, they are now under so much pressure that we are faced with our own contradictions between their sometimes conflicting roles as sanctuaries for biodiversity, or (over)logged sources of materials.