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Is thermal adaptation genetically limited?
Earth’s biodiversity is severely threatened by human-induced climate change. It is fairly trivial to mention that most organisms would be pushed either to evolve or migrate to new locations. Some current biodiversity models used to assess the vulnerability of species to climate...
How did you learn to collect honey?
ICTA-UAB researchers have conducted a study to understand how learning strategies within a society change over the individual's life-cycle. This research has analyzed how honey collecting knowledge is transfered across generations in the Scheduled Tribe community of the Jenu Kuruba in south...
A more democratic environmental governance
The ICTA-UAB has participated in the European research project ENGOV who wrote a Policy Brief that was distributed to the Latin America and the European Union chief of States Summit held in Santiago de Chile. The document draws attention on the need to include more effectively local...
Silver nanoparticles against bacteria
Research conducted at the UAB has developed a new technology for using metal nanoparticles to clean drinking water without the use of chemical reagents and therefore without causing environmental damage. These nanostructures, made of silver and cobalt, have shown great antimicrobial...