News room

29 April 2021

Press, Research

A look back at the Soufrière eruption in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Audrey Michaud-Dubuy and Guillaume Carazzo, volcanologists at the IPGP, look back at the eruption of La Soufrière on the island of Saint-Vincent in th...

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...

16 March 2021

Press, Research

Meteorite reveals oldest known planetary crust

A team of researchers from the Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer in Brest (CNRS, Université de Bretagne-Occidentale), the Institut de Physique...

16 March 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

REVOSIMA: a new automatic earthquake detection method

Since March 1st, 2021, Mayotte's volcanological and seismological monitoring network (REVOSIMA) has been using a new method for automatically detectin...

10 January 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

NASA's InSight Mars mission extended by 2 years

NASA has extended the InSight Mars mission by two years, until December 2022, with substantial financial support from NASA and CNES for the French (SE...

08 January 2021

Press, Research

A new geochemical scenario for conditions conducive to the appearance of life on Earth

A European study involving a CNRS researcher at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, published at the end of December 2020, proposes a new inte...

01 January 2021

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Aline Peltier named Knight of the National Order of Merit

10 December 2020

Press, Research

First description of the microbial communities of the Old City alkaline hydrothermal site, South-West Indian Ridge

A study led by IPGP scientists describes for the first time the microbial communities of the Old City alkaline hydrothermal site (southwestern Indian ...

10 December 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

Surveillance in times of crisis

Two scientific publications have just appeared in Seismological Research Letters, confirming the ability of IPGP's observatories to deal with the majo...

04 December 2020

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

OVSM-IPGP recommends Mount Pelée to be placed under yellow volcanic watch

On Thursday December 3rd, the Martinique Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of the IPGP (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS) sent ...

26 November 2020

Press, Research

Earth's primitive atmosphere, a Venusian hell

In an article published in the journal Science Advances, a team of international researchers reveal that the Earth's primitive atmosphere must have be...

24 November 2020

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Philippe Lognonné and Frédéric Moynier, winners of the Prix de l'Académie des sciences 2020

On Tuesday 24 November, the Académie des Sciences announced the names of the 68 winners of the 65 prizes it awarded in 2020. This year, two of the Aca...

18 November 2020

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Kurama Okubo receives the 2020 CNFGG Geophysics Thesis Prize

Since 1989, the CNFGG has awarded an annual prize for a thesis in geophysics to one or more young researchers who have submitted outstanding theses in...

31 October 2020

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Manon Bickert wins the Geological Society of France's 2020 thesis prize

Each year, the Société Géologique de France awards two thesis prizes to students who have distinguished themselves by the quality of their doctoral wo...