Earth and Environment - Earth Sciences


Horizon , the EU Research & Innovation Magazine, focuses on the project led by Francis Albarède, recipient of an ERC Advanced grant in 2016. In 2016 Francis Albarède, Professor Emeritus of Geochemistry at ENS de Lyon, was awarded an ERC advanced grant for his SILVER: Isotopes and the Rise of Money project.

Earth Sciences - Environment

Researchers from INRAE, Universidad del Desarrollo (Chile), University of Geneva and University of Grenoble developed a new method to assess the risk associated with rockfalls in the mountains, taking into account various triggering factors and all the issues exposed.

Sorbonne University Alliance Multidisciplinary research - Mathilde, Thomas, Hugo and Manon are Master's students at Sorbonne University. The first three are studying marine sciences and the last one is studying ecophysiology and ecotoxicology.

This past spring, the Amaryllis-Amagas mission took place off the coast of Brazil, aboard the legendary Marion Dufresne, the largest ship of the French oceanographic fleet.

Earth Sciences - Environment

The largest floating ice shelves in the polar ice sheet have lost more than a third of their volume since 1978.

Environment - Earth Sciences

Using a new analysis method for satellite images, an international research team, coordinated by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and INRAE, mapped for the first time annual changes in global forest biomass between 2010 and 2019.

Earth Sciences - Astronomy

Imagine a volcanic island about the size of France and over 20,000 metres high. Such a landscape may once have existed on the planet Mars.


Links - Earth Sciences