The IRD media centre
Since its inception, the Institute of Development Research has assembled scientific information regularly enriched on the South. It wishes to restore it to its partners, to share it with a broad audience interested in development issues and the tropical environment.
Photography, films and videos, paper and online media, discover the various resources of the IRD.
Sciences au sud - IRD periodical
Videos online Channel IRD
IRD's presentation movie
May 2009
The film of presentation of "Institut de Recherche pour le Développement" and of its activities.
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Biological fight applied to the South countries
February 2010 Learn more
Exhibitions
Fighting malaria
December 2009
Malaria, which is an infection caused by a parasite transmitted to man by mosquitoes, kills more than 1 million people every year. The disease is one of the most deadly on the planet, and threatens one third of humanity, essentially populations in tropical regions. Malaria is a major obstacle to development, and is a very real challenge for research.
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Ocean and climate
January 2008 Learn more
Indigo, the photo gallery
Indigo is the IRD's photo gallery. It stores, protects and spreads the scientific images of the Institute on the southern countries.
Indigo counts today more than 40 000 documents and grows richer every year of several thaousand images.
To connect and register to Indigo: http://www.indigo.ird.fr
Scientific newssheets
387 - In search of lost water under glaciers
October 2011
Over 99 % of the Earth’s fresh water exists in ice formations or underground. IRD geophysicists, aiming to find ways of detecting this resource, are at the spearhead in the development of an innovatory method based on nuclear magnetic resonance. To date, it is the only technique applicable for detecting liquid water underground or under a glacier from the surface and for estimating the volume.
This method recently found an original application as an aid for warning of glacier hazard. It successfully detected the presence of an immense water pocket of 55 000 m3 sitting under the Tête Rousse glacier in Haute-Savoie. This posed a flooding threat to people living in the valley below. Warning was given and the local authorities conducted a draining operation.
This technique is adaptable to glacier risk management, but it can also help for water supply provision. It can benefit both tropical mountain areas, such as the Andes or the Himalaya where glacial water can be a major threat, given the context of climate change, and semi-arid regions where water resources lie stored deep underground.
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386 - The first climate change refugees from Vanuatu still under threat
October 2011 Learn more
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385 - Jumbo squid, the ogre invading the Pacific
October 2011 Learn more
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384 - Sub-urban agriculture or how to practise effective recycling
September 2011 Learn more
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383 - New therapeutic target against leishmaniasis
September 2011 Learn more
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382 - The scars of slavery
September 2011 Learn more
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381 - Malaria mosquitoes putting up resistance
August 2011 Learn more
Scientific publications and maps
Horizon - pleins textes
72,000 bibliographic references spanning 60 years.
Full-text search facility available on 42,000 articles.
http://www.documentation.ird.fr/
Sphaera cartographie
18 000 cartographic references
2700 maps and atlases in digitised format.
http://www.cartographie.ird.fr/sphaera
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A production of maps, atlas and CD-ROM published by the IRD