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Fishing lines kill sea turtles
Scientists from CRAM (the Foundation for the Conservation and Recovery of Marine Animals) and the Autonomous University of BArcelona have studied what happens when a loggerhead sea turtle swallows a fishhook. The researchers have reached revealing conclusions: contrary to what could be thought, the hook...
Reconstructing past temperatures
The analysis of archeobacteria, the oldest organisms in our planet, can contribute to discovering the temperatures seas and lakes had thousands of years ago and reconstructing the Earth's climate history. ICTA researchers have improved the existing method for analyzing them, by reducing the time of...
Economic development and local ecological knowledge: A deadlock?
There has been little quantitative research about the causes and rate of acquisition and loss of local ecological knowledge. Some researchers have linked the loss of local ecological knowledge to the expansion of the market economy, others have found...
Inorganic carbon to improve wastewater treatment
Wastewater Treatment Plant biological reactors where a complex population of microorganisms is grown degrading the organic matter of the wastewater. In this work, researchers have studied a possible way to eliminate, as well as organic matter, nitrogen and phosphorus, two...
Ocean sediments reveal clues about future climate development
At the end of the last ice age, before big ice masses dissolved on the continents surrounding the North Atlantic Ocean, some sporadic episodes of rapid melting of the ancient British Ice Sheet affected ocean currents that are very important for Earth's...
