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In total, over the last five years, more than 4,000 gorgonians have been returned to the sea with a survival rate of 90% and various modifications of fishing gear have been successfully tested.

Due to a lack of data, the studies available so far underestimated the seismic and tsunami risk of these large faults.

This is the main conclusion of a study published this week in the prestigious journal Science of the Total Environment that proves that plastic releases organic chemical compounds and CO2 into the water, which causes a drop in pH.

The Institute will bring together scientists and fishermen to improve the current situation of these species, which have experienced an important decline in recent decades.

The collaboration between the ICM-CSIC and the regatta sailor Dídac Costa has allowed to obtain very valuable data on temperature and salinity of the sub-Antarctic region, difficult to access for oceanographic vessels.

An international study in which the ICM-CSIC has participated has reconstructed the evolutionary history of microbial diversity over the last 2,000 million years.