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North American fires contaminate Europe
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10.22.2025 |
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Environment
The huge fires that burn down millions of hectares of forest in North America every year have an impact on the other side of the Atlantic. Plumes of smoke and various other pollutants have been detected in the skies over France and beyond, explains the atmospheric scientist Stéphane Sauvage.
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Plastic recycling is counter-productive
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10.27.2025 |
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Environment
In August 2025, the Geneva Summit on plastic pollution once again failed to reach agreement on an international treaty, due in particular to a lack of consensus over recycling and its limits. This issue was the subject of a recent collective scientific assessment led by the CNRS and the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE).
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The myth of energy transition
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10.03.2025 |
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Energy
The concept of an “energy transition” is misleading, states the CNRS science historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. He explains why coal and oil never replaced wood, and that the fight against climate change must be based on available, affordable technologies.
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Hottest news from the Sun's corona
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10.09.2025 |
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astrophysics Why is the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere, the corona, so much hotter than its surface? Ten years after formulating a hypothesis based on a numerical model, CNRS researchers have now used direct observations of the star's surface to confirm their theory. |
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Colonialism in green camouflage
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10.20.2025 |
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Ecology The myth of Africa as a wild, enchanting continent conceals a reality of nature under glass orchestrated by Western experts, to the detriment of local populations. The historian Guillaume Blanc recounts this little-known story. |
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Does AI care about us?
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10.28.2025 |
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Artificial Intelligence In the French-Belgian film "The Residence", recently released in a number of European countries and Brazil, a novelist interacts with an artificial intelligence system. The robotics researcher Catherine Pélachaud explains how a seemingly personal but actually one-way relationship can arise between... |
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Cervantes, an influencer of his time
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10.15.2025 |
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Literature A previously unpublished sonnet by Cervantes, recently discovered in an account of Neapolitan festivals, reveals the exceptional socio-professional status of the author of "Don Quixote" in the Renaissance. |
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