Have you noticed that the beaches have less sand than before, the cliffs collapse and we find rocks everywhere? It is the impact of a phenomenon known as ‘coastal erosion’ and we are doing its scientific monitoring.
Catalonia has declared a drought-induced “state of exceptionality”. The situation is serious, and simply folding our arms and hoping for rain is not enough. All this is explained in full inside, based on a discussion with CREAF’s water management expert, Annelies Broekman.
Climate shelters are a natural or urban area that offers benign environmental conditions to protect against an unfavorable context. The conditions of each climatic shelter determine whether they benefit one species or another – including humans – depending on the needs of each one.
An international research has shown that termites wood decay increases 6.8 times per 10°C rise in temperature. With climate change, the distribution area of these insects will increase, amplifying this CO₂ release effect that is currently not captured by climate models.
A few days ago, the Copernicus Earth observation programme published a hair-raising satellite image. It shows the land surface temperature in some parts of Spain
iodiversity loss is undeniable, but at what rate? Why? How does it affect us? And what can we do? The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has been answering these questions since its creation in 2012.
Just as Michelangelo only painted one Sistine Chapel and located it in the Vatican, nature has promoted unique, special species of flora and fauna that
