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MARGO, a new tool to improve climate models
An international team of researchers, including Antoni Rosell, ICREA researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) and professor of the Department of Geography, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, who participated as a member of the direction...
Australia, pioneer in using prescribed burning
This research reveals Australia's technical excellence in forest management based on the practice known as prescribed burning. A tool already known to the aborigines of the area (albeit for other purposes), it consists of burning a specific area of natural land to rid it of...
More biodegradable organic wastes
The treatment of organic solid waste to obtain compost – which can be used as soil conditioner or fertilizer - is a complex process. However, certain physico-chemical and biological characteristics are required in a waste to be successfully composted. When...
Heavy metal accumulation in moss subjected to drought
Researchers at the Ecophysiology Unit of CSIC-CREAF have studied the possible negative effects of an increase in dryness would have in ecosystems of the Mediterranean Basin. Based on an experiment with adult holm oaks found in the Prades mountains in which the earth...
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"