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© Nicolas Coltice
Press
Earth

What makes the Earth’s surface move?

Do tectonic plates move because of motion in the Earth’s mantle, or is the mantle driven by the movement of the plates? Or could it be that this…

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© Jean Vannier, Laboratoire de géologie de Lyon : Terre, planètes, environnement (CNRS/ENS de Lyon/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
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Earth

Collective behaviour 480 million years ago

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© C. Liousse
Press
Environment
Earth

West Africa: human-induced air pollution is higher than expected

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Corporate
Earth
Space

CNES and CNRS renew their exceptional partnership

CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Antoine Petit, Chairman & CEO of CNRS, the French national scientific research centre, have renewed the…

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© Nicolas Biver
Press
Earth
Space

A family of comets reopens the debate about the origin of Earth’s water

Where did the Earth’s water come from? Although comets, with their icy nuclei, seem like ideal candidates, analyses have so far shown that their…

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© Susanne Preunkert et al. / CNRS Photo library
Press
Environment
Earth

Traces of Roman-era pollution stored in the ice of Mont Blanc

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© Aubert et al./IPGP/CNRS Photo library
Press
Earth

Geomagnetic jerks finally reproduced and explained

The Earth’s magnetic field experiences unpredictable, rapid, and intense anomalies that are known as geomagnetic jerks. The mechanisms behind this…

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© Martin Funk / VAW / ETH Zürich
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Engineering
Earth

Measuring iceberg production with earthquakes

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© Grégory Beaugrand
Press
Environment
Earth

Unprecedented biological changes in the global ocean

Current monitoring of marine biological systems only covers a tiny fraction of the ocean, which limits our ability to confidently predict the…

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Press
Earth

CNRS launches observation campaign of seismic activity in Mayotte

Since May 10, 2018, multiple earthquakes have been reported off the island of Mayotte (Indian Ocean), some of which were widely felt by the…

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