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A 70% of rice paddies in low-income countries are expected to suffer further yield reduction, compared to 52% in middle and high-income countries. Image: Rice paddy in Thailand, by Eduardo Prim, Unsplash.

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High CO2 concentration in the atmosphere impoverishes rice farmland

The high concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere reduces by more than 20% the availability of phosphorus in rice paddies worldwide, an indispensable fertiliser mineral. This puts countries with low purchasing power at a disadvantage in terms of the cost of phosphorus fertiliser, and further widens economic inequality due to CO2 emissions and impacts on geochemical processes.

10 de March de 2023 No Comments

L'equip durant l'expedició. D'esquerra a dreta, Sergi Pla-Rabés, Olga Margalef i Oriol Grau.

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CREAF researchers study climate change-induced permafrost melt in Arctic peat bogs in Alaska

The main carbon store in the planet’s soil is peat, a deposit of plant origin found in water-saturated areas called peat bogs or peatlands. In

26 de September de 2019 No Comments

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Satellites are overestimating vegetation’s ability to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide

According to an article by CREAF researchers Benjamin Stocker and Josep Peñuelas published in Nature Geoscience, drought impact studies based on satellite data do not factor

1 de May de 2019 No Comments

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Fossil fuel emissions hit record high after unexpected growth: Global Carbon Budget 2017

The Global Carbon Budget 2017 has analyzed carbon emission sources and sinks worldwide. This year the researcher Benjamin Stocker from CREAF has collaborated in the

16 de November de 2017 No Comments

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The greening of the earth is reaching its limit

A new study led by Josep Peñuelas and published in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals that CO2 abundance in the atmosphere no longer has a

19 de September de 2017 No Comments

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Do drought-affected trees die of thirst or hunger?

A new study has concluded that, universally, trees that have died from drought are unable to transport water to their leaves. The findings also highlight

16 de August de 2017 No Comments

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Forest wildfires: learning from the beast

We are in the middle of the wildfire season, and the ecologist Francisco Lloret explains what we can learn about fires and how we can

11 de August de 2017 No Comments

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Achieving the COP21 agreements is currently far-fetched

The COP21 set the maximum temperature increase for 2100 at 1.5° C. The only scenario which would allow achievement of this goal would require vastly

9 de June de 2017 No Comments

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That viscous film which envelops the Earth

Life on Earth barely extends over its surface. But organisms have been able to transform its climate for millions of years. Now, humans seem to

6 de June de 2017 No Comments

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A dangerous metabolism: future remedies against CO2 increase?

Geoengineering is a hope to slow down and reduce CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Technological innovations must help us to find solutions to this global

8 de February de 2017 No Comments

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