[Un article de The Conversation écrit par Sabrina Speich – Professeure en océanographie et sciences du climat, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL]

Along the North Pacific, a silence has been stretching for more than three hundred years, hiding an invisible threat under the sea. Nestled between the Juan plaque of Fuca and the North American plate, the Cascadia flaw concentrates colossal energy without ever betraying its presence on the surface. However, scientists fear a brutal awakening, capable … Read more

In a quiet district of Austin, Texas, a tiger cat named Creme Puff has challenged all organic clocks. For 38 years, she shared the daily life of a man as eccentric as devoted, between breakfasts at bacon, night cinema sessions and a few drops of red wine. Far from veterinary standards, this singular existence has … Read more

FIFA announces “innovations” for its new competition A new football competition is about to start: the club World Cup. Scheduled in the United States from June 14 to July 13, this new tournament is also an opportunity to test new technologies, still unpublished until then. Indeed, the International Football Association Federation (FIFA) announced “innovations” on … Read more

In recent years, some libraries have prohibited the reading and manipulation of certain ancient books. And it is not because of the words they contain but because of the composition of the covers of the latter. Indeed, often green in color, the protections of these works contain arsenic.

Under the shredded canopy of the Peruvian Amazon, lunar landscapes replaced the old forests. Since the 1980s, gold mines in the Amazon have been gaining ground, snacking on the floors, sucking water and leaving behind sterile areas where nothing grows. Far from a simple deforestation episode, this extraction transforms the environment irreversibly, compromising the very … Read more

Do you know Bourriquet? He is the little gray plush donkey, friend of Winnie l'Ourson and Jean-Christophe. And, you may have noticed, he is often very sad … in question? He loses his tail a lot, which saddens him. But why wouldn't he do like the lizard? It would be enough to have it “repel” … Read more

We often evoke pirates as folk figures, forgetting that they have really influenced maritime history and colonial economic circuits. In the 18th century, some bounded the Indian Ocean to intercept the return ships of the Indies, loaded with gold, spices and precious stones. One of them, Olivier Levasseur, known as “the nozzle”, left a singular … Read more

At the crossroads of strange various facts and literary accounts, some bodies are found reduced to ashes in intact pieces, without apparent trace of external fire. Since the 17th century, these disconcerting scenes have fueled hypotheses as fascinating as they are controversial, to the point of taking the name of spontaneous human combustion. Between prudent … Read more

This Sunday, June 8, 2025, on the occasion of World Ocean Day and the 3rd United Nations Conference on the Ocean (UNOC3), is officially launched the Starfish barometer.