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.
An article published in the journal PNAS reveals that bird numbers in Europe have fallen by 25% in the last 40 years and that intensive farming is the main cause.
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.
The North American scientist William Anderegg -currently a visiting researcher for a year at CREAF as part of the Visitors & Sabbaticals programme- has received the prestigious Alan T Waterman Award 2023 from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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.
Opportunity is one of the words that constantly pepper the discourse of CREAF researcher Oriol Lapiedra and listening to him, one wonders whether he is a passionate person who is caught out by opportunities while working.
