Humidity, environmental pollution, cleaning with aggressive products for the chemical composition of the rock, etc give rise to the appearance of salts which cause stone decomposition, paint coats detachment, dust… Seguir Leyendo New mineralogical techniques contribute to prevent national heritage damage
The implementation of the Kyoto Protocol has raised, among other pressing matters, the need of getting to know the annual levels of carbon in different earth’s ecosystems. Scientists connected with… Seguir Leyendo Experts prove the geochemical origin of part of the CO2 emissions in semiarid climates
After 30 years of research, the zoology team led by Alberto Tinaut has recently finished a study started in 1977. According to this study, published in the “Zoología baetica” journal,… Seguir Leyendo Experts of the University of Granada publish the first detailed list of ants of the Sierra Nevada
This research work is the first step to confirm the existence of a temperature change. Their main goal has been “to detect the signs of the Climatic Change through the… Seguir Leyendo Scientifics have compiled temperature data of the 20th century in Spain as an evidence of the climatic change
A group of scientists from the Department of Organic Chemistry and the Biotechnology Institute of the University of Granada have found out that the plant “Dittirichia viscose”, known as elecampe,… Seguir Leyendo Scientists obtain anticancer medicines from the elecampe, a wild plant growing in the Mediterranean
Several associations and scientists have called upon the Ministry of the Environment to declare Sierra Bermeja, Palmitera and Real de Malaga mountain ranges (Malaga) as a National Park to be… Seguir Leyendo Scientists call upon the Spanish Government to declare Sierra Bermeja, Palmitera and Real de Malaga mountain ranges as a National Park
A study carried out by researchers from the Department of Radiology and Physical Medicine of the University of Granada, in collaboration with the Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública, found that… Seguir Leyendo 100% of people carry at least one type of pesticide from the air, water or food in their bodies
The research team from the Geodynamics Department at the University of Granada and the Spanish Institute of Geology and Mining (which is part of the Spanish Ministry of Education and… Seguir Leyendo Scientists of the University of Granada prove that rivers do not act as barriers for groundwater flow
A study carried out by Mª del Mar Sánchez Peinado, Ph.D. and conducted by Mª Victoria Martínez-Toledo, Mª Belén Rodelas González and Clementina Pozo Llorente, researchers of the Institute of… Seguir Leyendo Researchers of Granada University (Spain) have studied the influence of linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonate (LAS) on the bacterial diversity of an agricultural soil
Seawater intrusion is often the consequence of freshwater aquifers overexploitation. This is a very common and serious phenomenon all over the Mediterranean basin, as well as in other areas with… Seguir Leyendo Seawater intrusion is the first cause of contamination of coastal aquifers