Histórico

To investigate the recent changes in the relief of the Iberian Peninsula and their causes is an unfinished challenge of the Spanish scientific community. The great social significance of this work involves climatic change, assessment of natural resources, and future...

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Francisca Martínez and Francisco J. Jiménez Espejo, who are researchers of the Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra and the research group ‘Mineralogía y Geoquímica de los ambientes sedimentario y metamórfico’ of the Universidad de Granada, headed by the...

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Every summer, we face the same problem. The levels of reservoirs fall alarmingly and experts try to find solutions, such as awareness campaigns, saving measures, or the use of less common water resources, as for example desalination, treated sewage, transfers,...

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In 2008, Zaragoza will become the world capital city of scientific knowledge thanks to the Universal Exhibition that will be held there from the 14th of June to the 14th of September with the motto: “Water and sustainable development”. The...

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Far from being an isolated case, the high temperatures experienced in our country in the last days respond without doubt to the growing global warming, and man is directly responsible for it due to the high emissions of carbon dioxide....

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The loss of soil after an ecological disaster like that in Doñana (Seville), due to the burst of a supporting wall of the reservoir containing the toxic wastes of the Aznalcollar mine (25th April 1998), can have serious repercussions for...

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How did the rodents which inhabited the south of the Iberian Peninsula live six million years ago? The researcher of the UGR Raef Minwer-Barakat has attempted to answer this question through his doctoral thesis «Rodents and insectivorous of Upper Turoliense...

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According to María Luisa Calvache Quesada, researcher in charge of project and professor of the Department of Geodynamics of the UGR, the dam, approximately located 14 kilometres upstream of the aquifer, will produce an alteration in river Guadalfeo´s volume of...

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Certain ecosystems have been affected by the continuous exposure to environmental pollution. The effects of certain pollutants on organisms are not always obvious, and they are often disguised. To isolate the effects and quantify damage, scientists of the Universidad de...

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With this project, financed by the Ministry of Education and Science, the scientists hope to contribute to explain the great incognita of the possibility of life in Mars. The meteorite, called ALH84001, was found in the region of Allen Hills...

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