Most of the Spanish population is pessimistic about the future climate actions by the government and citizens after the impact of COVID-19. This is the conclusion of a study carried out by researchers at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), which seeks to determine how the COVID-19 crisis has affected society's attitude towards climate change.
A UAB study published in Science of the Total Enviroment certifies that the anchovies caught off the Catalan coast are in a good state of health and, in contrast to populations found in other regions, show no signs of containing significant amounts of Anisakis or other parasites that could pose a threat to human health.
A consortium of 19 European institutions, including the UAB, has launched the IDAlert project with the objective of improving the response capacity of Europe to pathogens capable of causing global epidemics, brought on by climate change. The project includes a multidisciplinary panel of experts in zoonosis, infectious disease epidemiology, social sciences, artificial intelligence, the environment, economy, and environmental and climate sciences.
The UAB Open Labs, Strategic Research Communities (CORES), Parc de Recerca and the EINA School of Art and Design have collaborated with the Molins de Rei City Council to define the uses and services of the new Technology Innovation Centre, which will begin to operate in 2023.
The UAB has begun a new crowdfunding campaign to advance in the research being conducted on Linya, the woman from Noguera, the Homo sapiens discovered by the research team from the Centre for Archaeological Heritage Studies (CEPArq) at the Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Les Avellanes, Lleida) in 2020.
Coordinated by the UAB, the European project which is now finalising has strengthened collaborations across borders and developed a plan to monitor bear (Ursus arctos) and wolf (Canis lupus) populations in the French, Spanish and Andorran regions of the Pyrenees.
A new challenge-based research strategy, with citizen particiption and substantiated on regional knowledge ecosystems, can increase the impact of academic research, says paper presented by the ECIU University.
A UAB research team has managed to track the behaviour of microplastics during their "journey" through the intestinal tract of a living organism and illustrate what happens along the way. The study, carried out on Drosophilamelanogaster using electron microscopy equipment developed by the researchers themselves, represents a significant step towards a more precise analysis of the health risks of being exposed to these pollutants.
The official TEDx channel has now made available the videos with the conferences offered at the TEDxUABarcelona session which took place this past 31 March. Nine members of the university community participated with debates related to the topic of "Innovative Thinking".
