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Alexis Licht & Grégoire Métais
Press
Earth

Balkanatolia: the forgotten continent that sheds light on the evolution of mammals

A team of geologists and palaeontologists has discovered that, some 50 million years ago, there was a low-lying continent…

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© Romain Millan, Jean-Baptiste Barré / CNRS / IGE – Map data : Mapbox / OpenStreetMap / Maxar
Press
Environment
Earth

New calculations of worldwide glacial flows and volumes

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© Luc BEAUFORT / CNRS / CEREGE
Press
Life
Earth

When variations in Earth's orbit drive biological evolution

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© Marion Garçon
Press
Earth

Continental growth is not a continuous process

  One of Earth's unique features is that it has continents.   Contrary to many theories…

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© Olivier Membrive, 2016
Press
Environment
Earth

MAGIC 2021: better understanding carbon sources and sinks in the boreal regions

  The high latitudes (beyond 66° N), considered to be a CO2 sink but also containing many sources of methane, are…

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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.
Press
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
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Society
Earth

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

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