Published on 07/11/2025
Published in The Conversation, an article co-authored by Gaspard Conseil and Damien Banas highlights the persistence of ‘chemical ghosts’: transformation products derived from pesticides, which are still present in our waters despite having been banned for several decades in some cases.
Drawing on the work of the Animal and Agroecosystems Laboratory (L2A) and in particular the CABARETox project (L2A - OFB - ANSES), the article stresses the need to rethink environmental risk assessment by broadening the focus beyond ‘historical’ pesticides to better take into account these legacy contaminants, which bear witness to the chemical memory of our agricultural landscapes. The Conversation media outlet relies mainly on results from peer-reviewed journals, offering a mainstream outlet for this academic research.
Read the full article on The Conversation: The ghosts of pesticides will haunt our environments for a long time to come.
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Published on 07/11/2025
As part of a three-month scientific mobility programme (June to September 2025) initiated by Damien Banas, Gaspard Conseil spent time with the EISA group in the Nature Management department (HEPIA - Geneva), under the supervision of Aurélie Boissezon (Assistant Professor) and Lucie Rivail (LUSUL Project Manager and HES Lecturer).
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Published on 04/11/2025
The Sargasso Sea, located in the North Atlantic, is a sea of seaweed that stretches over 3,000 kilometres long and 1,000 kilometres wide.
Here is a link to a report by Frédéric Courant broadcast on L'Esprit Sorcier TV. It features L2A partners in the West Indies as well as Yves Le Roux, an L2A researcher working on methanisation and Sargassum.
Published on 20/10/2025
A scientific program has been specifically built by members of the Animal and Agroecosystems Laboratory (Marielle Thomas, Sandra Kuntz and Dominique Chardard) and the FabLab Les MacGyver (Clémence Fontaine ; https://fablablesmacgyver.jbthiery.asso.fr/) to host at the village of sciences of the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies children with disabilities from the Institut Médico Educatif Joli Bois (IME) of the Association Jean-Baptiste Thiéry (https://jbthiery.asso.fr/).
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Published on 16/10/2025
Noémie Mailfert and Stefan Jurjanz accepted the invitation from the Serbian organising team to participate in the annual conference of the International Association for Biomonitoring of Environmental Pollution (IABEP), which took place from 13 to 15 October in Belgrade, Serbia. The sessions focused on biomonitoring using mosses and lichens, mainly air pollution, another on monitoring microplastic pollution, and how to monitor PFAS.
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Published on 09/10/2025
The University of Lorraine is rallying throughout Pink October to raise awareness about breast cancer prevention. To illustrate this initiative, the university launched a photo challenge for university staff throughout October. The MRCA team enthusiastically participated in this initiative. The photos will be published in staff newsletters throughout October.