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.
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.
A new study reveals that trees consume methane, a greenhouse gas responsible for around 30% of global warming.
Spain, according to INAP data, has lost 5.3 million inhabitants between 1960 and 2021. Against this backdrop, one of the main objectives of current policy has been to reverse this situation. Even so, at a time of biodiversity crisis, bringing people back to the countryside can be perceived as a threat to nature conservation.
Science has succeeded in unravelling the origin of the butterflies population explosion in 2019 and how they spread across several continents.
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.
