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Publication of the LCH in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition on April 24, 2022. CNRS-INSB communication on May 24, 2022.

Diversifying the species in forest plantations has a positive impact on the quality of woodlands. This is the result of an international study, involving a CNRS researcher 1 , published on May 20, 2022, in the journal Science .

To meet the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming by 2050 to well under 2° C, carbon neutrality must be achieved.

Water is a shared resource meeting essential needs of ecosystems and human populations alike. It should not be considered a commodity serving only a few purposes.

By combining trees with crops or livestock on a single agricultural plot, agroforestry is increasingly viewed as a significant element in the agroecological transition to sustainable farming and food systems.

Antoine Petit, CNRS Chair & CEO, and Philippe Mauguin, INRAE Chair & CEO, recently signed a new five-year framework agreement to underline their research institutions' commitment to working even more closely together.

Full steam ahead toward the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26)! On October 25, Ifremer, the CNRS and the IRD, with support from the Ocean & Climate Platform and ESA astronau

From 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022, the CNRS will be in attendance at the Dubai World Expo's France Pavilion.

Mercury is released by coal combustion and mining activities to the atmosphere as a gaseous pollutant.

Pa per to Be Presented at IEEE ESSCIRC/ESSDERC Conference in September Warns of Unsustainable Increase in Power Use, Notes Potential Advantages for European Industry In Collaborative Response.

Food has become one of the major challenges of the 21st century. According to a study carried out by CNRS scientists 1 , an organic, sustainable, biodiversity-friendly agro-food system, could be implemented in Europe and would allow a balanced coexistence between agriculture and the environment.

Publication by LGL-TPE Earth & Environment on May 17, 2021. Tektites are terrestrial impact-generated glasses that are ejected long distance (up to 11,000 km), share unique characteristics and have a poorly understood formation process.

O    The ocean is an ecosystem under threat from global warming, pollution, resource overexploitation and habitat degradation.

O    Mathematics have a major role to play in responding to pressing environmental issues, including global warming, species extinctions, extreme natural events, and pollution.

An international group of scientific experts co-directed by CNRS oceanographer Jean-Pierre Gattuso 1 has stated the requirements for coral reef survival in an article published in Biological Conservation .

The partnership establishes the France-Arizona Institute for Global Grand Challenges at the University of Arizona, which will address critical research areas through large-scale international collaboration, innovation and exchange of resources.

An international research team including researchers from CNRS, Sorbonne University and Ifremer has demonstrated that the ocean is increasingly moving towards stabilization.

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