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CREAF’s first international newsletter is out!

8 de September 2020Adriana Clivillé

We have published the first international CREAF's newsletter with the purpose of improving our visibility, reputation and recruitment of talent. Its common thread is ecology...

Creating less flammable landscapes would as much as halve the area expected to be affected by fire in the next 30 years

28 de August 2020Adriana Clivillé

Using mathematical models, a joint Spanish and Portuguese study has shown that altering the landscape, so as to reduce vegetation density and combustibility for example,...

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Ozone affects plants, insects and microorganisms, and poses a threat to global biodiversity

28 de August 2020Anna Ramon Revilla

According to a study co-authored by CREAF-based CSIC researcher Josep Peñuelas and published in Science Advances, increases in ozone in Earth’s atmosphere will be a...

Climate change and population growth: key factors in the decline of Easter Island’s civilization

30 de July 2020Verónica Couto Antelo

The collapse of civilizations has always attracted our attention: entire books, films and thousands of legends have been dedicated to it. What makes some human...

Climate change, deforestation and fires are changing the Amazon Rainforest’s scent

23 de July 2020Anna Ramon Revilla

For a long time now, scientists have been describing nature’s scents on the basis of measurements of their main ingredients, volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Emitted...

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New proposals to understand how the planet’s vegetation works

20 de July 2020CREAF

An international team -where Josep Peñuelas has participated- explores the factors that most affect plant behavior and how they can be included in predictive models...

Discover the biodiversity of the coast with the ‘Return to the Sea’ campaign

16 de July 2020Ángela Justamante

The Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), the Cos4Cloud project in which CREAF participates, the marine environmental services company Anèl·lides – Serveis ambientals marins, the environmental association Xatrac and...

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The challenge

24 de September 2020J.Luis Ordóñez

We are in year one after the first pandemic. The planet is occupied entirely by humans who still believe in GDP ... Well, not entirely......

CENTRE: A different summer

10 de September 2020Enrique Doblas Miranda

We are in year one after the first pandemic. The planet is occupied entirely by humans who still believe in GDP ... Well, not entirely......

CENTRE: The new girl

27 de August 2020Enrique Doblas Miranda

We are in year one after the first pandemic. The planet is occupied entirely by humans who still believe in GDP ... Well, not entirely......

Total mobility

16 de August 2020J.Luis Ordóñez

We are in year one after the first pandemic. The planet is occupied entirely by humans who still believe in GDP ... Well, not entirely......

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Open data policies in times of COVID-19

3 de August 2020Joan Masó

The COVID-19 pandemic has arisen at a time when governments were already reasonably convinced of the need to make their data accessible via open data...

CENTRE: Lost intern

31 de July 2020Enrique Doblas Miranda

We are in year one after the first pandemic. The planet is occupied entirely by humans who still believe in GDP ... Well, not entirely......

Scientific precision

16 de July 2020J.Luis Ordóñez

We are in year one after the first pandemic. The planet is occupied entirely by humans who still believe in GDP ... Well, not entirely......

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CREAF IN THE MEDIA

100 birds in your city and you don’t see them

1 de July 2015CREAF

Parrots at public parks and gulls flying landfills. Those are examples of some birds that have found the ideal place to live in our cities....

The four case studies of BeWater in the digital magazine Revolve Water

30 de January 2015CREAF

The digital magazine Revolve Water makes a description of the physical, environmental and socio-economic characteristics of the four river basins an gives an overview of the...

Revolve Magazine devotes an article to the European project BeWater

30 de January 2015CREAF

This magazine about sustainable issues explain the project coordinated by CREAF in a general report. Four other articles will explain the four case studies in...

An experience: the battle against the tiger mosquito

21 de October 2014CREAF

Aitana Oltra explain at Barcelona Metròpolis the project Atrapaeltigre.com a project of the ICREA-Movement Ecology Laboratory  CEAB-CSIC/ CREAF. ...

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