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A + A In shallow water, less than 30 metres, the survival of hard corals depends on photosynthetic unicellular algae (zooxanthellae) living in their tissues.

Publication of the LGL-TPE in the journal Chemical Geology on November 5, 2021. CO2 degassing of mafic silicate melts is an important part of the terrestrial carbon cycle, at mid-ocean ridges, oceanic hot spots, or in the middle of continents.

Scientists from the CNRS, CNES, IRD, Sorbonne Université, l'Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier and their Australian colleagues 1 , with the support of the IPEV, have provided a comprehensive analysis on the evolution of Southern Ocean temperatures over the last 25 years.

To better understand the sequestration of atmospheric CO2 in the ocean, and especially how the chemical elements essential to this storage are supplied, transported and transformed by the oceans, is the goal of the SWINGS oceanographic cruise.

Développement durable On the occasion of World Climate Day, physicist Davide Faranda, at the Environmental Transition Institute at Sorbonne University, looks back at the mixed results of COP 27 held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

Thursday 30 July, the Mars 2020 mission successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida atop an Atlas V launcher.

The CNRS and Mayotte's Centre Universitaire de Formation et de Recherche (CUFR) have just approved the creation of a global ecology study site on the Mahoran archipelago.

Global warming is causing species to search for more temperate environments in which to migrate to, but it is marine species - according to the latest results of a Franco-American study mainly involv

Through the assessment of the 1062 marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Mediterranean Sea, covering 6% of the Mediterranean Basin, a research team led by the CNRS has shown that 95% of the total protected are lacks regulations to reduce human impacts on biodiversity 1 .

In nature, certain species are able to regulate the cycling of soil nutrients and vegetation diversity and dynamics.

'2H were measured in water present in tiny primary fluid inclusions trapped in Mesoproterozoic ('1. Ga) and Neoproterozoic ('0.

The selection committee met on January 23, 2020 and announced the six winning projects from the Tech4Earth call for proposals.

The selection committee met on January 23, 2020 and announced the six winning projects from the Tech4Earth call for proposals.

Two Presentations at ISSCC 2020 Describe Results that Could Lead to 'Significant Commercialization of Vibration-Powered Systems' SAN FRANCISCO - Feb.

A major airborne and oceanographic mission off the Caribbean island of Barbados is preparing to study two major climate unknowns: trade wind cumulus clouds and mesoscale eddies in the ocean.

For the first time, scientists have provided reliable regional estimates of land subsidence and water-level rise in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta.

From 7 December 2019 to 25 January 2020, a team of scientists from France (CNRS and Université Grenoble Alpes ) and Italy ( Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcano

Impact of the last interglacial climate change on ecosystems and Neanderthals behavior at Baume Moula-Guercy, Ardèche, France Publication of LGL-TPE at ENS de Lyon and CEPAM in the American Journal of Archaeological Science on February19, 2019.

Two complementary publications from RDP laboratory and IXXI institute set out to define a systemic approach to the major challenges of the present.

The research team of Gaël Yvert at Laboratory of Biology and Modeling of the Cell (LBMC) has discovered mutations that increase cell proliferation in conditions of repeated stress.

ExploraGyre is a future-oriented and challenging project led by 5 students from the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon and the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (National Institute of Applied Sciences) of Lyon, France.

As the vertical position is unstable—for both trees and humans—mechanisms are needed to offset the effect of gravity.

The CNRS will be setting up CNRS@CREATE, its first overseas subsidiary, in Singapore. Its objective will be to manage Franco-Singaporean research activities as part of the Singaporean ecosystem.

How can technology improve our housing conditions' How will we interact with “intelligent” housing? What information is it possible and desirable to share? What future legislative framework for these

In early May 2018, Philippe Mauguin, President of INRA, visited South America to strengthen the Institute's long-standing scientific commitments and develop new opportunities.

Fans enable water strider adaptation Genomes of closely related organisms are similar but contain variations that enable different phenotypes and lifestyles.

Optical microscopic view of a cuticle of the Frenelopsis fossil conifer used to reconstruct the atmospheric CO2 concentration in the Cretaceous.

For how long have warm-blooded animals existed? The time at which this character first appeared in the ancestors of mammals has long been debated.

The Arctic Ocean and its fauna are far from major sources of pollution. So why are they so contaminated with mercury? This mystery has just been solved by an international team including researchers from the CNRS, the Desert Research Institute, and the University of Colorado.