The massive use of nitrogen in agricultural fertilisers has led to an increase in agricultural yields, but also to an inefficient system that loses almost 80% of these inputs, wreaking havoc on nature.
Our researcher Mariona Ferrandiz considers 10 basic aspects about urban forests that we want to share.
CREAF is part of a network of centers that requests the new Commissioner for the Mediterranean announced by EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen take into account the profound impacts of climate change on security, the economy, society and finance of the region.
The depopulation of the rural world has earned a place on the political and social agenda. The Spanish government and the Autonomous Regions have programmes to reverse or at least mitigate it. Even the European Union is drawing up strategies and action plans. There are many reasons for this.
The social role of women and their vulnerability are two of the keys that explain why it is critical to approach the climate emergency from a gender perspective. Four professionals share complementary opinions, in a conversation convened by elDiario.es in which Alicia Pérez-Porro, CREAF scientific coordinator, intervenes.
An international scientific team with the participation of CREAF and CSIC has recently published an article in Nature Climate Change explaining that biodiversity protects forests from premature leaf out.
Catalan scientists are studying what consequences global warming could have on the climate system of the entire planet, through the sediments accumulated in the Arctic ice.
