Tag Archives: ecosystem

There is a week of celebrations this week! Today we celebrate biodiversity day! and then next week EU celebrate the Green Week in Brussels. In the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB), we hope that it will make us reflect of the importance of biodiversity, the lost of species, genes and ecosystems, and its consequences. This year is dedicated to the forest biodiversity with the topic: International Year of Forests. Thus, it will be more focused on raising ...

The EPI (Environmental Performance Index) studies the most environmental countries in the world. In their website, you will see a map representing the most and least environmental countries. In order to rank the countries, it tracks ten policy categories covering environmental public health and ecosystem vitality.  Within those two categories, they classify for example the air pollution, divided on the effects on humans and the effects on ecosystem, the biodiversity and habitat or the agriculture. This is an ...

22nd April is Earth Day. A day created to celebrate and demonstrate our commitment with the environment. This year has not been good for the planet. Two examples are enough to show critical environmental problems: the nuclear disaster in Fukusima, whose effects are still not very clear, and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, that has commemorated its first anniversary yesterday and that caused severed damage to the flora and fauna of the place. For these reasons, the celebration of ...

During 2010, they have followed an environmental policy that has saved  5.804 trees from being cut. They have recycle 319.250 kilograms of paper in 2010 . Since the creation of the Green Office in 2004 they have recycled 1033 tons between paper and cardboard and have saved 18.792 trees, according to the sources of this hospital, it has been said in europapress. This is the only hospital of the region subscribed in the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS), ...

These animals are threaten globally by climate change and they find it harder and harder to look for food. There have not a stable seasonal weather conditions and they rely mainly on this for their survival. However, due to the climate change,  there are more rains during winter, so the snow remains icy and that makes it  very difficult for them to excavate in the icy soil for food. This means that if they cannot get food, they die. The number ...

Interested in ecological research? Then you will be interested in Ecotron, a research platform created to study the changes and developments of the ecosystem. The new European Ecotron is situated in Montpellier. This simulator consists of an equipement that replicates, as closely as possible, the natural enviroment  to be able to observe and see changes. After 9 years of research and 4.3 millions of euro of investement, the new ecological project of  CNRS (Centre National de la Reserche Scientifique), executes the ...