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A new study led by the ICM shows that sea ice melt increases particles formed from gases released by microorganisms that inhabit the sea ice, which fosters cloud formation and could help to reduce the solar radiation received by the region.

This service will improve the assessment, in the fisheries field, associated with the impact of surface currents on exploited species such as sardines, anchovies and shrimp.

Based on isotope analysis, a team of scientists from the ICM, the IEO and the ULPGC has demonstrated, for the first time, the importance of microbes in the entire marine food chain.

This new approach developed by the ICM, the IEO and JAMSTEC represents, for the first time, the adaptive evolution of phytoplankton to climate change and will help to improve predictions of its response to upcoming changes.

The campaign, in which the ICM, the UTM and the UB are involved, will study the geochemical signal of the waters that are formed in the Mediterranean and exported to the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar to assess their sensitivity to climatic oscillations.

The aim of this citizen science initiative is to promote conservation and raise public awareness of the marine ecosystem.