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July 15, 2025
Plants improve soil carbon storage, but they can disrupt it too
Plants can capture CO2 from the atmosphere and turn it into building blocks they use to grow. Ultimately, they send a large portion belowground through their roots.
June 10, 2025
Alps could face a doubling in torrential summer rainfall frequency as temperatures rise by 2°C
Intense, short-lived summer downpours are expected to become both more frequent and more intense across Alpine regions as the climate warms.
June 10, 2025
Rethinking Past Ocean Circulation to Refine Future Climate Models
An international study led by the University of Lausanne reveals that deep ocean currents in the North Atlantic stayed active during two extremely cold and well-studied periods of the last ice age.
June 4, 2025
From commitment to collective action: Launch of the Culture for the Planet Alliance
A major step forward in the sustainability transition of the arts and cultural sector on a global scale is taking place.
May 26, 2025
Melting of Greenland’s ice sheet: how ice slabs regulate meltwater runoff into the sea
Scientists working at the universities of Fribourg and Lausanne have developed a model for the way Greenland’s meltwater drains into the sea.
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A Mobi.Doc mobility grant to Arizona State University
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français Medhi Bida is a doctoral student at IGD and he was among the first to receive a mobility grant Mobi-doc. Discover his project! He will go to…
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New measurements of Titanium diffusion in quartz: a new magma chronology
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français In a recent publication, Michael Jollands, Elias Bloch and Othmar Müntener present new measurements of Titanium diffusion in quartz. Their results differ from previous studies by more…
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Pollens to reconstruct climate: a new Spark project
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français Could palaeoclimatology – the study of past climates based on sedimentary records – provide crucial tools to test our predictive models of climate change? The new SPARK project “More uncertainties…
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Discover an ambitious geophysical project of CO2 storage
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français With his new European project DISCO2STORE “Discontinuities in CO2 Storage Reservoirs”, Dr. Santiago Solazzi is leading the UNIL participation in a far-reaching network. This 4-year project starting in February 2021 aims at…
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Borehole-based fracture unclogging experiment: bridging the gap between laboratory- and field-scale evidence
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français Nicolas Barbosa has started in November 2020 an SNF SPARK project entitled “Borehole-based fracture unclogging experiment: bridging the gap between laboratory- and field-scale evidence”. This project emerged as a…
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Rediscovered at the bottom of a drawer, a fossil sheds light on how millipede predecessors gained ground
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français The invasion of land by animals, followed by the establishment of complex continental ecosystems, is a critical event in the history of life on our planet. Nonetheless, little…
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Phosphorus: a tracer of igneous processes in the shallow earth’s crust?
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français Thanks to a novel SNF Project funding, Professeur Othmar Müntener (ISTE) will address major unknowns in the role of phosphorusin the shallow crust. Phosphorus is one of…
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New Professor Eccellenza discusses role of driftwood in river dynamics
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français The FGSE is pleased to welcome since April 2020 Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva, recipient of an Eccellenza scholarship. She will be interested in the dynamics of rivers and the…
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Early-Postdoc-Mobility Grant in Savannas of Madagascar
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français Leanne Phelps left Lausanne for Madagascar where she launched her project « Reconstructing the Holocene savannas of Madagascar: implications for long-term disturbance dynamics and modern human land use » thanks to…
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In search of biomolecules from the first animals
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français Pierre Gueriau has started his one-year SPARK project last December. His objective is to identify remains of ancient biomolecules in enigmatic fossil animals. If successful, the project…
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Mobility project: the origins of chocolate
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français Au cœur de la production du cacao, David Amuzu cherche à évaluer la durabilité et ses enjeux au Ghana grâce à son Doc.Mobility « Land Use Transition and Socio-Ecological…
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Mobility Grant: Subglacial systems and ice flow dynamics
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français Inigo Irarrazaval has obtained a Doc-Mobility grant for his project « Subglacial systems and ice flow dynamics induced by glacial lakes in Exploradores glacier, Patagonia » which he started last October.…