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Published on November 19, 2020
IRD Press Release - November 18, 2020

Researchers from IRD, CNRS and UGA participated in a European study on sources of fine particles harmful to health, coordinated by the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Switzerland). Their results, published in the journal Nature on November 18, 2020, reveal the harmful nature of fine particles in the atmosphere through their oxidizing potential. They suggest that this indicator should be taken into account in the future in air quality control measures for the health of people around the world. (…)

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Published on November 13, 2020

Like every fall since 2007, the French-Nepali joint expedition is about to depart for the Everest region to survey the mass balance of three glaciers. This field campaign is a joint project between French partners (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement/Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement) and Nepali partners (Tribhuvan University/International Center for Integrated Mountain Development). Within four weeks, the team will trek to the glaciers and do the annual measurements of (…)

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Published on September 18, 2020

Over 99% of terrestrial ice is bound up in the ice sheets covering Antarctic and Greenland. Even partial melting of this ice due to climate change will significantly contribute to sea level rise. But how much exactly ? For the first time ever, glaciologists, oceanographers, and climatologists from 13 countries have teamed up to make new projections. Their modelling efforts, involving CNRS and CEA researchers, show that the Antarctic Ice Sheet may account for up to 30 cm of sea level rise (…)

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Published on March 27, 2019

Floods and river floods are among the most destructive natural disasters, resulting in many loss of life, infrastructure damage and economic hardship. Companies are now increasingly threatened by such floods, mainly because of the increasing exposure of goods and people in risk areas, but also because climate change is expected to change the magnitude, frequency and seasonality of floods. An accurate assessment of the flood hazard is therefore crucial for the sustainable development of (…)

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Published on November 09, 2018

An international team, involving French researchers from the Institute of Environmental Geosciences (IGE / OSUG, University Grenoble Alpes / IRD / CNRS / Grenoble INP), studied a particularly devastating flood event, caused by the sudden draining of a pro-glacial lake in the Bhotekoshi / Sunkoshi Valley, Nepal. Based on a particularly innovative observation technique based on the seismic analysis of soil vibrations, the authors bring unprecedented observational constraints on the physics of (…)

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