Natural Resources and Environment

Natural Resources and Environment

UGR experts advise the use of pruning remains to prevent olive soil degradation

The olive soil of the area of Cazorla is more and more eroded. The lack of essential nutrients such as organic matter, nitrogenous or phosphorus is the main reason for this problem, which can even affect production in future. The team of scientists of the department of Pedology and Agricultural Chemistry of the Universidad de… Seguir Leyendo UGR experts advise the use of pruning remains to prevent olive soil degradation

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Experts of the UGR design a surge tank, unique in Andalusia, in order to verify docks and study coast sections

Reproducing the sea conditions of an area to verify its effects in docks, ports or coasts is one of the main functions of the multidirectional surge tank, a device entirely designed and constructed by researchers of the Universidad de Granada with unique features in Spain. Installed in the basement of the Higher Technical School of… Seguir Leyendo Experts of the UGR design a surge tank, unique in Andalusia, in order to verify docks and study coast sections

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Scientists of the UGR study the increase of ultraviolet sun radiation and its harmful effects on human health

The research group ‘Física de la Atmósfera’ of the Universidad de Granada, coordinated by Lucas Alados Arboledas, is immersed in different work lines to characterize the radioactive effect of clouds or dust particles on ultraviolet solar radiation. The researchers who are carrying out the data measuring and registration work in the Centro Andaluz de Medio… Seguir Leyendo Scientists of the UGR study the increase of ultraviolet sun radiation and its harmful effects on human health

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Researchers of the UGR analyse the trace of the meteorite that exterminated dinosaurs 65 million years ago

What would happen on Earth if a meteorite would crash again such as the one that exterminated dinosaurs 65 million years ago? In order to answer this question a team of researchers of the University of Granada is working since 1989 on the analysis of the trace left by this impact in the planet. In… Seguir Leyendo Researchers of the UGR analyse the trace of the meteorite that exterminated dinosaurs 65 million years ago

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A book published by the UGR reveals the singularity of the Andalusian orography and landscape

The Spanish mountains, like most mountains, and especially the Mediterranean ones, can not be conceived regardless of a permanent human action since antiquity. With this precept, the professor of Regional Geographical Analysis of the University of Granada, Francisco Rodríguez Martínez, starts his argumentation about the continuous exploitation of the different use potentials existing in our… Seguir Leyendo A book published by the UGR reveals the singularity of the Andalusian orography and landscape

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Scientists of the UGR advice to reorganize the greenhouses of Granada’s coast in order to avoid pollution, erosion and floods

Bad territorial planning of the greenhouses in Granada’s coast could turn the area into a new El Ejido, characterized by soil erosion, environmental pollution and flood risk. This conclusion can be extracted from “Environmental-territorial assessment of irrigation agriculture in the Mediterranean coast: the case of Granada”, a thesis developed by professor of the University of… Seguir Leyendo Scientists of the UGR advice to reorganize the greenhouses of Granada’s coast in order to avoid pollution, erosion and floods

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Measures against drought

The lack of rainfall puts under scrutiny again one of the most important resources of men: water. Last autumn and this spring have been the driest seasons in the last fifty years and inevitably the usual questions arise again: Are we witnessing the first consequences of the climatic change? Is a new drought cycle starting?… Seguir Leyendo Measures against drought

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Appropriate vegetation management could be a key question in forest fire prevention, according to a research work of the UGR

The scarcity of rainfall registered throughout last autumn and this spring forecasts a dry summer inclined to big forest fires. One more year the mountains of the province are in danger and although the technical services have tried to design strategies to fight against these disasters by preventing them, “still there are not effective measures… Seguir Leyendo Appropriate vegetation management could be a key question in forest fire prevention, according to a research work of the UGR

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The University of Granada develops an Intelligent System to assess rubbish tips areas

Recent environmental studies have revealed the precarious situation of certain population centres near to rubbish tips and dumps. The new guidelines imposed by the European Union have given raise to the development of a Spanish regulation, in which an environmental diagnose of all the tips of urban solid waste and dumps. According to such regulation,… Seguir Leyendo The University of Granada develops an Intelligent System to assess rubbish tips areas

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UGR scholars analyse nutrient loss in crops of arid areas banks

José Aguilar Ruiz, Professor of the Department of Pedology and Agricultural Chemistry of the University of Granada, together with the head of the Soil and Water Department of the Centre for Research and Agricultural Training (CIFA), Armando Martínez Raya, have taken part in a study included in Víctor Hugo Durán Zuazo’s doctoral thesis. The research… Seguir Leyendo UGR scholars analyse nutrient loss in crops of arid areas banks