Earth System Science Theme News

14 September 2021

Press, Research

The fate of titanium nanoparticles in natural environments

In a study published in August 2021 in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, scientists from IPGP and LNE studied the evolution of titanium nanoparticle...

20 April 2021

Press, Research

Landscape-scale experiment reveals how dune size is selected

By levelling a dune field in the Gobi Desert and observing the emergence and growth of new dunes at high resolution for over 3 years, an international...

15 April 2021

General public, Press, Research

Ecorc'Air, the urban pollution measured in the bark of plane trees

Ecorc'Air, a participatory science project run by several institutions, aims to collect plane tree bark in order to establish a precise map of fine me...

17 September 2020

Press, Research

Experimental testing of processes controlling the structuring of major continental rifts

Assessing the seismic hazard in continental strike-slip zones (faults that are usually vertical and along which two blocks slide horizontally in relat...

03 September 2020

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Lead fallout from Notre Dame fire mapped in honey

In a study published this summer, a team of Canadian and French researchers studied honeys from beehives in the Paris region to trace lead pollution l...

03 August 2020

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Redox issue of the journal Elements, coordinated by IPGP researchers

The scientific journal Elements, published for 15 years by 17 learned societies mainly in mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry, publishes 6 thematic...

07 July 2020

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A Plate Boundary Emerges Between India and Australia

Bathymetric and seismic data point to a new plate boundary in a fracture-riddled zone beneath the northern Indian Ocean.

02 December 2019

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Xenon trapped in rock provides insight into the evolution of life

Researchers at CRPG (CNRS/ Université de Lorraine) and IPGP have carried out a study highlighting intense outgassing around 2.5 billion years ago, whi...

17 April 2019

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Glacial earthquakes in Greenland trace the history of polar cap mass loss

Rising temperatures in recent decades have accelerated the melting of the polar ice caps. By discharging ice in the form of meltwater or icebergs into...

15 April 2019

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Isotopically labeled nanoparticles: towards a better understanding of contamination mechanisms in aquatic environments

Manufactured nanoparticles (MNPs) are used in many everyday consumer products, thanks to their exceptional chemical, optical, magnetic or mechanical p...

15 March 2019

Awards and Distinctions, Press

Make our planet great again: Alessandro Forte joins the IPGP

Alessandro Forte, professor of geology at the University of Florida, is one of the winners of the third wave of the Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA...

12 February 2019

Press, Research

The birth of dunes under a bi-directional wind regime

Most terrestrial sandy seas form at subtropical latitudes, where wind direction exhibits seasonal variations. In this work, we extend the two-dimensio...