Earth and Environment - Earth Sciences

A study published in Nature Communications shows that water resulting from ice melting has increased six-fold in recent decades.

Universities, associations, professional bodies and research centres appeared before the Congress of Deputies to warn of the discipline-s lack of social recognition and the growing shortage of qualified professionals.

Professor Lluís Gibert, from the University of Barcelona, is the only expert from a European institution participating in an international study based on the analysis of the bones of a fossilized foot and teeth that has revealed how Australopithecus deyiremeda , a human ancestor that coexisted more than three million years ago with Australopithecus afarensis - the famous Lucy - on the plains of East Africa, moved and fed.

Recent research into the biology of the extinct Otodus megalodon , the largest predatory shark that ever lived, had suggested that Mediterranean populations reached significantly smaller sizes than those from other parts of the planet, giving rise to the term -Mediterranean dwarfism-.

Marine litter is a serious environmental problem worldwide. Reducing it would require implementing a global monitoring system, agreeing on the use of common methods and protocols for data collection, and categorizing all components of marine debris.

An international team led by Covadonga Orejas, a researcher at the Gijón Oceanographic Centre of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC); Veerle Huvenne, a researcher at the UK National Oc