The mystery of increased runoff in the Central Sahel is better understood
The increase in runoff in the central Sahel since the onset of the drought that affected all of West Africa between 1970 and 1995 is a well-known phenomenon, but an […]
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Ancient guano reveals how climate change could shape the future of seabird populations
The history of seabird population sizes prior to the Anthropocene (the modern era) remains largely unknown. This gap limits our understanding of current phenomena and our ability to predict the […]
Central African Forest: 600,000 Years of Human History Uncovered Beneath the Canopy
Archaeological excavations conducted in the Congo Basin show that these territories have been inhabited, traversed, and transformed for hundreds of thousands of years—long before Homo sapiens’ great exodus from Africa. […]
10,000 Years of Food Inequality
An international team of researchers (Inrap, CNRS, Simon Fraser University) has published an article in the journal PNAS titled “Dietary Inequality Marker Reveals 10,000 Years of Gender and Cultural Disparity […]
Deciphering ancient oceans using pyrite and iron isotopes
Iron isotopes in pyrite are frequently used to better understand environmental conditions throughout our planet’s history, going back to sedimentary archives dating back billions of years. A team of researchers […]
A temperature jump of 400°C at a depth of 2 km—it’s possible in Krafla to cook a steak!
This study explains the heat transfer between a magma reservoir and the surrounding rock in the high-enthalpy geothermal exploration area of Krafla, Iceland. Thermomechanical numerical models explain the sudden jump […]
Life on Earth represents only a tiny fraction of possible biological forms
What forms does life take on Earth? This is the question asked by scientists from the University of Toulouse and the CNRS, who are exploring the morphological limits of life […]
MACIV nodes: an exceptional seismological network on the volcanoes of the Massif Central
As part of the MACIV project, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), a team of scientists deployed the largest mobile seismological network ever installed by a university team […]
Laterites, archives of past climate and keys to present development
The scarlet lands covering the plains and plateaus of West Africa are much more than just a typical tropical landscape. These laterites bear witness to a geological history spanning tens […]