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How did heavy metal get to the road?
Roadside sediments, in which high amounts of sediments have been detected, are an environmental concern of great interest due to the possible transmission of their pollutants from traffic activities and road maintenance to humans and environment. This work analyzes leaching tests applied to...
Mercedes Maroto-Valer, director of CICCS
"We need more than clean technologies to combat climate change"
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...
