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Satellite image taken on August 12, 2010 during a large fire in the Amazon. The rainforest was covered in dense smoke and potentially received nutrients from distant deforestation fires. Image: NASA Worldview, provided by Adrià Descals Ferrando.

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CREAF researcher Adrià Descals boosts the study of savanna and tropical forest fires thanks to a Leonardo Grant

Adrian Descals has received a Leonardo 2023 Grant distinction in the Environmental and Earth Sciences section for his project on impact of fire emissions on tropical forest productivity.

31 de October de 2023 No Comments

A 30 kilometer-wide wildfire front creating a pyro cumulus cloud, generated when a wildfire heats the air at a high temperature. The wildfire burned in the Siberian Arctic at a latitude of 69.31°N on August 6, 2020. Sentinel-2 Infrared color image. Image: Satellite photo created by Adrià Descals. Imagery acquired by European Space Agency.

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Global warming in the Arctic increases megafires on the permafrost

A study published in Science led by Adrià Descals and Josep Peñuelas reveals after four decades of satellite observations that the Arctic is undergoing a change in fire regimes due to climate warming.

4 de November de 2022 No Comments

Under restoration area. Image: Public domain.

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Essential outcomes for COP26

CREAF and CSIC researcher Josep Peñuelas signed an editorial in Global Change Biology about COP26 and their results or objectives, like nature based solutions. The

10 de November de 2021 No Comments

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Planting 3,000 million trees in Europe could increase the risk of forest fires

A research group made up of researchers from CREAF, CTFC, InBIO/CIBIO, University of Santiago de Compostela and CSIC warns that the massive reforestation proposed by

28 de April de 2021 No Comments

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CREAF researcher Adrià Descals boosts the study of savanna and tropical forest fires thanks to a Leonardo Grant

Global warming in the Arctic increases megafires on the permafrost

Essential outcomes for COP26

Planting 3,000 million trees in Europe could increase the risk of forest fires

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