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Expedition Sea Level - a numerical interactive activity to better understand sea-level rise

Published on April 25, 2024

Expedition Sea Level is a digital interactive activity designed as a game for middle school students (11 to 15 years old) to learn about the links between sea-level rise, glacier and ice sheet melting, and human activities. This game is the result of Clémence Foucher’s diploma project conducted within the framework of the European research project PROTECT.
It includes various concepts to understand : Why sea level changes How ice sheets and glaciers evolve and are studied The idea that the (...)

Videos series DEEPICE Stories : Insights into Ice & Climate, a new educational resource on ices cores

Published on April 23, 2024

Did you know that ancient ice can reveal to us how the climate has evolved in the past ? And also help us predict the future climate ?
Discover the video series "DEEPICE stories - Insights into ice & climate" created in collaboration with the 15 doctoral students of the European research project DEEPICE. Subtitles in French, Spanish, Italian, and English are available.
The videos are also downloadable with integrated French subtitles here : https://zenodo.org/records/10949026
To (...)

Climate change reduces our access to extraterrestrial material

Published on April 12, 2024
Université libre de Bruxelles

Global warming results in the dissapearance of meteorites, and as such reduces our access to extraterrestrial material... A team of researchers, involved researcher from Institut des géosciences de l’environnement (IGE-OSUG, CNRS/UGA/IRD/INRAE/Grenoble INP - UGA) and co-led by ULB and its Laboratoire de glaciologie (GLACIOL), publishes a study in Nature Climate Change on this unexpected impact of climate change, which is hampering our knowledge of the solar system.
Antarctica harbors (...)

Massive Open Online Course "The Living Amazon : Science, Cultures and Sustainability in Practice"

Published on March 27, 2024

The Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest and river system, is crucial for global climate stability and maintaining biodiversity. The region is home to 47 million people, including over two million Indigenous people. However, it faces unprecedented challenges like deforestation, degradation, and criminal activity, risking reaching a tipping point.
This course, available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, offers insights into the Amazon’s ecosystems, covering current trends, threats, and (...)

Unveiling the electrifying secrets of polar snow and ice : a paradigm shift in atmospheric chemistry ?

Published on February 06, 2024

The Earth’s polar regions continue to be a hotbed of unexpected atmospheric chemistry phenomena. Although these regions are far away from sources of anthropogenic pollution, these substances can accumulate in the snow and ice. In addition, there are phenomena such as the complete, yet widespread depletion of ground-level ozone occurring only there has intrigued scientists for decades. Now, an innovative manuscript, "Electrical charging of snow and ice in polar regions and the potential (...)

Alpine glaciers will lose at least a third of their volume by 2050, whatever happens

Published on January 19, 2024

Article originally published by UNIL
Even if greenhouse gas emissions were to cease altogether, the volume of ice in the European Alps would fall by 34% by 2050. If the trend observed over the last 20 years continues at the same rate, however, almost half the volume of ice will be lost as has been demonstrated by scientists from UNIL in a new international study.
By 2050, i.e. in 26 years’ time, we will have lost at least 34% of the volume of ice in the European Alps, even if global (...)

New Horizon Europe Project focuses on improved understanding of Clouds and Aerosols in Weather and Climate

Published on January 09, 2024

CERTAINTY : Cloud-aERosol inTeractions & their impActs IN The earth sYstem project, funded by the Horizon Europe program, aims to advance our comprehension of clouds and aerosols in the climate. This project strives to refine and use observations and models to understand and describe the intricate interactions between clouds and aerosols within climate and weather systems.
Emerging observation technologies are being launched to increase our understanding of aerosol-cloud interactions. (...)

Florent Gimbert is awarded ERC Consolidator 2023 grant

Published on December 21, 2023

Every year, the European Research Council (ERC) funds projects on ambitious and risky subjects by scientists in the early stages of their careers through its "ERC Consolidator Grants". These grants support research projects addressing innovative issues not previously addressed.
Florent Gimbert, CNRS research fellow at IGE, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant 2023 for his REASSESS project.
REASSESS : Probing and predicting the dynamical response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to surface (...)

New overview of antibiotic-resistant substances in water

Published on December 12, 2023

The increased presence of antimicrobial substances in water is a concern. The substances can be transformed over their life cycle through several different processes. Researchers from IGE and SLU (Swedish university of agriculture sciences) have therefore compiled an overview of transformation products and estimated their risks.
The aquatic environment is an important reservoir of antibiotic resistance. It is therefore crucial to understand what happens to the antimicrobial substances in (...)

Toward a complete extinction of the last ice shelves of the Greenland ice sheet

Published on November 08, 2023

In northern Greenland, glaciers contain enough ice to raise sea levels by more than 2 meters. In this region, glaciers naturally flow from the interior of the ice sheet to the ocean, where they start to float and form ice shelves several tens or even hundreds of kilometers long. "These ice shelves play a crucial role, similar to giant "dams" that regulate the quantity of icebergs discharged into the ocean by the glaciers" explains Romain Millan, lead author of the study. When these ice (...)