Scientific news

Plasticizer contamination could be one of the causes of the decline in the populations of these species, along with climate change and fishing pressure.

According to the experts, the intensity of the regression is related to the artificiality of the beaches, their morphology, the waves and the structures of protection.

Within this initiative, the ICM will develop a citizen science platform where each community involved will be able to upload and share their observations.

A group of ICM researchers has coordinated the installation of a device able to transform the fiber optic cabling into a seismic network of sensors that detects ground motion.

Reducing uncertainty in how marine ecosystems respond to climate change will support more effective adaptation planning, a new ecological modelling study in which the ICM has participated has found.

This is the main conclusion of a scientific work published recently in the Monographs of the Catalan Institution of Natural History, a subsidiary of the Institute of Catalan Studies, in which the ICM has participated.