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Modelling of a submarine landslide in the Svalbard Islands indicates that tsunami waves could be more than 4 meters high and reach the coast in 50 minutes.

Once recovered, the animals will be returned to the sea thanks to the collaboration of the fishing sector in the framework of the LIFE ECOREST Project, which aims to restore about 30,000 hectares of deep sea habitats in Catalonia.

These animals build their skeletons and shells with calcium carbonate (chalk), such as corals, bryozoans, molluscs, sea urchins or crustaceans.

Organic forms of this compound play a key role in marine planktonic networks and are an important part of the models used to predict the Earth's climate.

Scientists have analyzed the proportion of stable isotopes of nitrogen and carbon in a collection of cetaceans stranded in the Canary Islands, Madeira and Azores since 1996.

This is the main conclusion of an ICM study that considers the latest DNA sequencing techniques, which make it possible to detect mutations on short time scales in the natural environment.