The Uforest project will carry out four simultaneous tree plantations in autumn 2023, one of them in the metropolitan area of Barcelona (Spain), as a pilot educational forest.
Published in the journal Nature, an article arising from a study involving CREAF and led by the University of Leeds reveals that climate change is weakening the forests of the southern and western Amazon.
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.
The second edition of CREAF’s ‘vermuts’ brought together 17 researchers, this time with biodiversity as the main theme.
A study recently published in Nature led by an international team in which CREAF postdoctoral researcher Lluis Gómez Gener has participated, shows that river ecosystems play a valuable role in the exchange of greenhouse gases and, consequently, in the study of global 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.
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.
