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The presentation of the IPCC Synthesis Report has encouraged the convening of several international press conferences to provide journalists with the scientific vision of the document and assess the consequences for governments around the world. Image: Jonathan Ford, Unsplash.

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Jofre Carnicer, spokesperson at an international press conference to contextualise the IPCC Synthesis Report 2023 on climate change

A few days before the IPCC presented the Synthesis Report of the 6th Assessment of Climate Change, international press conferences have been convened to provide context and answer journalists’ questions about the series of scientific reports and how they affect action by governments around the world.

20 de March de 2023 No Comments

Participants of the AquaINFRA project at the inaugural meeting held in Denmark from 14 to 16 February 2023. Source: AquaINFRA.

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Connecting land and coastal water research with the AquaINFRA project

CREAF is part of the AquaINFRA project, which receives the support of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) to develop a unique network that connects data from terrestrial and coastal water research.

20 de March de 2023 No Comments

A 70% of rice paddies in low-income countries are expected to suffer further yield reduction, compared to 52% in middle and high-income countries. Image: Rice paddy in Thailand, by Eduardo Prim, Unsplash.

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High CO2 concentration in the atmosphere impoverishes rice farmland

The high concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere reduces by more than 20% the availability of phosphorus in rice paddies worldwide, an indispensable fertiliser mineral. This puts countries with low purchasing power at a disadvantage in terms of the cost of phosphorus fertiliser, and further widens economic inequality due to CO2 emissions and impacts on geochemical processes.

10 de March de 2023 No Comments

Olga Margalef and Jordi Solé Ollé, CREAF researchers and members of the Committee of Experts on Climate Change of the Parliament of Catalonia. Image: CREAF.

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Olga Margalef and Jordi Solé Ollé, the climate crisis beyond emissions

The urgency of a new socio-economic approach, the self-demand to study climate change, science as a public service and the commitment to propose alternatives are on the table around which researchers Olga Margalef and Jordi Solé Ollé talk.

8 de February de 2023 No Comments

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A new era for geospatial information accessibility

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has approved “OGC API – Tiles – Part 1: Core”, a new standard whose development has been led by CREAF.

6 de February de 2023 No Comments

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AD4GD, a new project to unify and organise the data needed for the European Green Deal

All Data for Green Deal (AD4GD) is a European project led by CREAF that will help to unify all Earth observation data in a single space and thus support priority actions of the European Green Deal.

3 de February de 2023 No Comments

The Bayan Obo mine in Inner Mongolia (China) contains a large amount of rare earth minerals. Source: REUTERS (2011).

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Humans milk the periodic table turning a blind eye to its risks

For millions of years, nature has basically been getting by with just a few elements from the periodic table. However, to build the world of humans we need many more. A new article analyses the reasons and consequences of this divergence.

16 de January de 2023 No Comments

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Bridget Emmett, CREAF International Scientific Committee member, new President of the British Ecological Society

As a member of CREAF’s International Scientific Committee, Bridget Emmett helps define the center’s research strategy and to evaluate its results periodically.

13 de January de 2023 No Comments

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Individual and global decisions to avoid tropical primary forest loss

To close the PRIMARY project we present a final report of lessons learned during this project. It is a compilation of the conclusions of the

20 de December de 2022 No Comments

The protagonists of CREAF's first programme of visits and sabbaticals decipher the influence of warming on tundra vegetation in the Arctic, the benefits of forests as nature-based solutions and the impact of phosphorus on tropical savannas. Image: public domain.

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The Arctic, the Mediterranean forest and the tropical savannah, a glimpse of the visits and research sabbaticals at CREAF

The protagonists of CREAF’s first visit and sabbatical program decipher the influence of warming on tundra vegetation in the Arctic, the benefits of forests as nature-based solutions, and the incidence of phosphorus in tropical savannahs.

16 de December de 2022 No Comments

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