News archive
News archive
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A horticulture project in a vulnerable neighborhood wins the Urban Farm Challenge
16 Jun 2026
The ICTA-UAB hosted the grand final of the Urban Farm Challenge, an international university competition that seeks innovative ideas in sustainable urban...
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Climate change to alter sea-land breeze and increase ozone pollution in Barcelona
11 Jun 2026
Climate change will profoundly alter the dynamics of sea and land breezes in the Barcelona metropolitan area, trapping larger amounts of air pollutants over...
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ICTA-UAB Best Prizes awarded to female postdoctoral researchers
11 Jun 2026
Lucía Muñoz Sueiro and Amalia Calderón-Argelich are the two ICTA-UAB female postdoctoral researchers awarded in the third edition of the ICTA-UAB Best...
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Citizens as political actors, not individual consumers: new study calls for tighter advertising regulations
29 May 2026
Commercial marketing oriented toward sustainability is not compatible with degrowth, even when it promotes consuming less. That is the conclusion of a study...
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Strengthening environmental stewardship practices to improve biodiversity protection worldwide
26 May 2026
Indigenous and local communities are not secondary actors in biodiversity conservation, but decisive agents who are already protecting the natural...
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Cross-border workshop “Nature and Health” at Hospital de Cerdanya
20 May 2026
On 4 May 2026, the BCNUEJ at ICTA-UAB co-organized the cross-border workshop “Nature and Health” at the Hospital de Cerdanya, together with the Contrat Local...
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Neanderthals gathered shellfish using the same strategies as modern humans
19 May 2026
Neanderthal populations in southern Europe collected shellfish throughout the year, with a marked preference for the colder months, according to a new...
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Global North drains resources and labour from Latin America through unequal exchange in international trade
18 May 2026
More than 900 million tonnes of materials, 4 million km2 of land, and 53 billion hours of labour. This is the scale of resources that the Global North net...
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ICTA-UAB researchers bring science to bars at Pint of Science
15 May 2026
Science is once again leaving the laboratory and heading into bars. ICTA-UAB researchers Cristina Pérez Sánchez and Charlotte Liotta will take part in a new...
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ICTA-UAB researchers participate in the Bike Bus Summit 2026 in Lisbon
13 May 2026
Researchers from the ICTA-UAB participated in the Bike Bus Summit 2026, the international gathering dedicated to the growing global movement of “bike buses”,...