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.
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.
The European Space Agency (ESA) publishes new land use and land cover maps with a resolution ten times higher than existing maps.
The European Union is developing the Carbon Farming Framework, a roadmap to boost carbon farming in soils across the European continent. This model encompasses a variety of agricultural techniques with a common objective: to recover and increase the soil’s capacity to sequester atmospheric carbon.
In recent decades there have been significant declines in bees populations, which are linked to factors such as climate change, changes in land use, the arrival of new natural enemies and the use of pesticides.
Plants play a crucial role in the biosphere: they absorb carbon dioxide, release oxygen, and transfer water from the soil to the atmosphere. How do trees drink, and what happens when the water in the ground runs out?
Esfera Climática, a large communications office and pioneering project in Spain that connects media and researchers to increase media reports related to climate change in Spain, was created in order to answer questions about the current climate crisis.
A study published in Communications Earth and Environment – Nature has managed to read the rings of five hundred trees and reconstruct the history of rainfall in the Andean highlands of South America from 1700 to 2013.
The sustained destruction of forest cover is the critical result of the war that Syria has been experiencing since 2011, especially in the northeastern mountain range and around Damascus -the capital in the south- with long-term environmental and humanitarian consequences. CREAF pre-doctoral researcher Angham Daiyoub is the first author of the scientific article analysing the situation.
