The work, carried out by researchers from Spain and Denmark, evaluates the ability of bees to collect microplastics on their daily trips. The microplastics they are small pieces of plastic between 5 millimeters and 1 micrometer (the size of a bacterium). They may already be…
Cutting down trees is bad and nine other hoaxes that you have been told about forests
In the collective imagination (in Spain and the rest of the world), there is a series of false ideas that should be banished as soon as possible to promote the proper management of forests or, what is the same, planetary sustainability. Imagine a spectacular, dreamlike…
The phenomenon of school farms in Spain: 40 years of freethinking and environmental awareness
The origin of the first, La Limpia (Guadalajara, 1978), illustrates well the spirit that drove these projects: a new way of educating as the best tool to combat fascism. At the end of the 70s, when climate change was not present in the conversations and…
This is the surprising experiment with coffee and sand that explains the earthquakes in Spain
The approach of the tectonic plates causes earthquakes like those of Granada, but at the other end of the Peninsula it is the fractures and fluids of the earth’s crust that generate seismic movements. The earthquakes that have recently occurred in the south of Spain…
“Leading a sustainable life would make us happier”
Regarding the climate crisis, this researcher from the CSIC (Spain) points out: “We see the problem in the medium and long term, that is why we do not act as we have done with covid, but the effects can be much worse.” A group of…
Why the historic collapse of emissions in Spain in 2020 will not help much
Greenhouse gases fell by 17.9% due to the paralysis of the economy left by the pandemic. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Spain decreased by 17.9% in 2020 compared to the previous year, a “historic collapse” due to “the Covid-19 catastrophe and the paralysis of the…
This is what is known so far about the climate summit organized by Biden
In this meeting, in which Spain will participate, the US seeks to prepare the COP26 that should have been held in November 2020, but was postponed due to the pandemic. US President Joe Biden has invited a virtual summit against climate change to 40 world…
About 2,000 deaths a year: the drama of Madrid and Barcelona that nobody seems to see
Failure to comply with recommendations on air pollution, noise, heat and access to green spaces is associated with more than 1,000 annual deaths in Barcelona and more than 900 in Madrid. A new study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) estimates, for the…
The unknown danger of bringing an exotic species into your home
“People buy pets without any control, they don’t know what they are buying, they get bored of them and in the end the issue does go a little further, because when they bother at home they let them go”, explain technicians from the Ministry of…
All the keys to understanding the new (and controversial) Climate Change Law
The future law, one of Pedro Sánchez’s star projects to pivot the social and economic reconstruction of Spain, comes to an end with evident discrepancies between those who praise its content and those who criticize its lack of climate ambition, although all describe it as…