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Published on December 17, 2021

Antarctica : Beyond Epica exploring the climate of the past

Published on November 30, 2021

The first ice core drilling campaign of Beyond Epica-Oldest Ice is starting at Little Dome C, in Antarctica. This international research project is funded by the European Commission with 11 million euros and it is coordinated by the Institute of Polar Sciences of the Cnr (National Research Council of Italy). The project aims to obtain information on the evolution of the temperatures and on the composition of the atmosphere 1.5 million years ago, by analysing the ice cores that will be extracted from the deep ice in Antarctica. These data will be invaluable for predicting future climate trends and for implementing mitigation strategies

InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) Statement : Climate Change and Biodiversity : Interlinkages and policy options

Published on November 22, 2021

Climate change and biodiversity decline are major challenges of our time. Both are mainly caused by human activities, with profound consequences for the people and ecosystems on which we depend.
In 2021 and 2022, the major UN conferences on biodiversity (COP15) and climate change (COP26) will be held, providing an opportunity for governments to draw international attention to the interconnection between climate change and biodiversity. However, this is not guaranteed and some climate (...)

A project with participation of IGE receives €8 million from the EU to improve air quality monitoring in Europe

Published on October 27, 2021

The RI-URBANS project will focus on nanoparticles and atmospheric particulate matter, their sizes, constituents, sources and gaseous precursors It seeks to implement new service tools that contribute to improving air quality in European cities
Grenoble, October 27, 2021. The European Commission funded project, RI-URBANS, has been officially launched with the aim to provide advanced service tools from atmospheric research infrastructures to better assess the air quality in Europe. (...)

A new European network of young researchers to unveil past climate changes in Antarctica

Published on October 15, 2021

A network of international researchers launches a European collaboration on October 14th 2021. This collaboration will train a new generation of scientists to understand how past climate changes impacted Antarctica

Emilie Capron, paleoclimatologist at the IGE receives the AXA Prize for Climate Science

Published on August 10, 2021

Emilie Capron, researcher at IGE received the AXA Climate Science Award for her contribution to the understanding of future abrupt climate change.
Her work focuses on the study of polar ice cores to reconstruct past climate variations over the last 150,000 years, in order to improve our understanding of their causes and global impacts on the Earth system. Emilie Capron has been selected as one of the four winners of the AXA Climate Science Awards.
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Release of the first volume of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, 2021 : The Physical Science Basis

Published on August 09, 2021

The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is releasing today, August 9, 2021, the first volume of its sixth report, which summarizes the latest physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science and combining multiple climate indicators.

Observing how water flows below glacier using using seismic observations

Published on July 09, 2021

Article published originally here
Author : Ugo Nanni - 09/07/2021
What is it about ?
We deployed a dense array of 98 seismic sensors on the surface of the d’Argentière glacier in the French Alps and recorded one month of seismic noise generated by subglacial water flow during the onset of the 2018 melt season. With and innovative approach we produce a two dimensional map of the subglacial drainage system and observe the evolution of water flows over time. Early in the observation period, (...)

When PhD students from IGE learn about scientific communication and take control of a Twitter account

Published on June 25, 2021

On Monday 14 June 2021, 9 PhD students were given the green light to post in turn on the @EnDirectDuLabo Twitter account.
@EnDirectDuLabo, what is it ?
This Twitter account invites researchers to share their daily lives and research. Each week, subscribers discover what is hidden in the labs and what "doing science" means. The public can discover the work of PhD students, engineers, university lecturer,researchers and technicians. Discovering the many facets of research in France is the (...)

ALPALGA : the search for mountain snow microalgae

Published on June 09, 2021
Press release CNRS / UGA / Météo-France / INRAE / CEA

The life of the microscopic algae that inhabit snow at high elevations is still relatively unknown. Researchers from the CNRS, CEA, Météo-France, INRAE and the l’Université Grenoble Alpes have therefore created the ALPALGA consortium to study this little-known world, threatened by global warming. Scientists will publish their initial results in Frontiers in Plant Science on 7 June 2021, describing for the first time the distribution of dozens of mountain microalgae species according to elevation.