Tag Archives: natural environment

Would you like to visit an intact settlement of the Neanderthal period? In the town of Matera, you can find what it is called “Sassi” which are the caves made in the mountains where people live. These rock cut structures have been the settlement of human beings in the Paleolithic period and are still the house of some inhabitants at the city of Matera, an example of how over the years the natural environment has remain unchanged. It is also ...

Interested in ecological research? Then you will be interested in Ecotron, a research platform created to study the changes and developments of the ecosystem. The new European Ecotron is situated in Montpellier. This simulator consists of an equipement that replicates, as closely as possible, the natural enviroment  to be able to observe and see changes. After 9 years of research and 4.3 millions of euro of investement, the new ecological project of  CNRS (Centre National de la Reserche Scientifique), executes the ...