In the last decade, the incursion of the Industry 4.0 paradigm, as well as the adoption of artificial intelligence and specially the artificial neural network, has arisen a change in the the vision and management...
The 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona took place during an expansion of ecological thinking in Western Europe, but which was only incipient in Spain. This produced the absence of a unified and coherent environmental plan...
The waters of the Mediterranean Sea continue to receive dissolved metals from the mining waste deposited in Portmán Bay (Murcia) 25 years after the cessation of mining activity. The study has been done by
A study by researchers at the ICTA-UAB analyses the reasons why environmentally-minded scientists find it difficult to give up meat consumption, one of the world's greatest environmental problems. Scientists do not believe in individual actions and prefer to rely on politics and technology.
3,980 years ago occurred the largest eruption of the last millennia in Antarctica, according to the latest analysis of the lake sediments on the Byers Peninsula. This...
Historian of Science and Medicina at Yale University, she has published three books, the latest one entitled Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale (Chicago, 2018). Deborah Coen investigates the culture of science of the past and its connection with other intellectual and politica spheres, as well as...
A recent study published by CREAF and the UAB shows that the combination of multiple sources of information helps to have a broader and better understanding of the forest ecosystems of Catalonia and the services and goods they provide, which are key for...
A study published by ICTA-UAB and the University of Manchester proves the potential sustainability benefits of using urban solar cookers (in Spain) made with low-impact household materials instead of...
Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture: Evolutionary Social, Environmental and Policy Sciences (Cambridge University Press, October 2018) is a new book written by ICREA Research Professor Jeroen van den Bergh of at ICTA-UAB. It...
The researcher of the ICTA-UAB Sergio Villamayor and the Dr. Gustavo García, from the University of Puerto Rico, have analysed the effect of the belonging to local associations on the capacity to adapt to the drought...
