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Vegetation devastated by fire, Landes de Gascogne Regional Park, Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The 2022 fire season in France demonstrated that areas are becoming increasingly flammable as the climate warms and dries.

Vegetation devastated by fire, Landes de Gascogne Regional Park, Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The 2022 fire season in France demonstrated that areas are becoming increasingly flammable as the climate warms and dries.

© Cyril Fésillon / Fire-landes / CNRS Images

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Océan, la science en mouvement

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Photovoltaïque : quel impact sur nos lacs ?

Mural "Windows Opened onto the Universe"

The universe comes to the metro with a new mural created by the CNRS in partnership with the RATP.

Momoko Seto, explorer of living things

The ocean, so strong and yet so fragile

A CNRS exhibition that reminds us just how much the ocean needs all the sciences. This immense unknown, fragile and threatened, is damaged by our activities, both at sea and on land. Mysterious and tumultuous, it feeds us, makes us breathe and regulates our climate.

Fabrice Boudjaaba director of CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences

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Invasions de sangliers : enquête à Bordeaux 🐗

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