Conference The Blood of the Glaciers and the Biodiversity of the Alps with the Jardin du Lautaret

Did you know that in the snow there are also algae? Amazing, isn't it? From glaciers to puddles, on the facades of houses, algae are omnipresent. Beyond these micro-algae, micro-organisms constitute a large part of the biodiversity, hiding under the surface of the earth, lakes, rivers, in the snow... Invisible to our eyes, except when their presence is manifested by blooms.

This is how the famous blood of the glaciers (red coloring of the snow at the end of spring, even in early summer in...