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Can chemistry be environmentally friendly?
Published on: March 24 , 2026
Women still significantly underrepresented in scientific patents
Published on: March 12 , 2026
Inaugural lecture: Ecological transition: the hope of sustainability sciences
Published on: March 9 , 2026
A new eco-friendly process for synthesizing hedione
Updated on: November 3 , 2021
The traditional chemical synthesis of this freshness booster, highly prized by the...
We know how to cultivate metal!
Updated on: October 1 , 2021
Gold, nickel, cobalt... certain plants have the amazing ability to extract metal...
Claude Grison: Cleaning up soil and water with plants? It's possible!
Updated on: May 3 , 2021
What if science took inspiration from nature to respond to the environmental challenges of the 21st century?
Bouquets of scents to repel mosquitoes
Updated on: April 19 , 2021
A CNRS laboratory has developed a 100% natural mosquito repellent that owes its...
Bioinspir cleans water using plants
Updated on: December 14 , 2020
Plant filters absorb heavy metals, which the start-up then recycles in...
Cleaning up the environment with invasive exotic plants
Updated on: November 25 , 2020
The ChimEco laboratory is working on soil and water remediation using plants...
All models are in nature
Updated on: September 18 , 2020
Taking life as a model to respond to the social and environmental challenges of the 21st century...
Bioinspir invents a plant-based filter to clean up contaminated water
Updated on: September 16 , 2020
Born out of the ChimEco laboratory at the University of Montpellier, the start-up Bioinspir has put...
#PollutionAlert: In the Loire Gorges, hunters' clay pigeon shooting is damaging a Natura 2000 forest.
Updated on: September 6 , 2020
Every year since 1990, the municipal hunting association of Chambles (Loire) has organized a...
#SustainableScience – Restoring and recycling with plants
Updated on: July 1 , 2020
Will gardeners one day replace miners? If plants are used...
"Le fil vert" column: It is possible to decontaminate soil using plants without creating waste!
Updated on: February 21 , 2020
Rehabilitating degraded industrial soils and producing complex molecules using...
Science at the bedside of the environment
Updated on: February 13 , 2020
Chemist Claude Grison won the European Inventor of the Year Award in June...
An effective and eco-friendly solution for cleaning up soil and water: plants
Updated on: November 25 , 2019
Some municipalities are opting for plant filters to capture pollutants from water and...
Hyperaccumulator plants: a solution for decontaminating soil in the future?
Updated on: November 12 , 2019
According to ADEME, 100,000 hectares of land in France are contaminated with heavy metals. Faced with...
These molecules that poison us: Scientists' solutions
Updated on: March 7 , 2019
La Recherche, Special Issue No. 29, pp. 35–40, March 7, 2019 Link to...
Can chemistry be environmentally friendly?
Updated on: December 1 , 2018
Le FigaroDecember 2018 Link to...