Scientific news

Institute researchers have participated in the development of a work that identifies the scientific needs and challenges currently facing the Mediterranean region.

A new study led by the ICM-CSIC and the UB has revealed that marine heat waves associated with the climate crisis are leading to the collapse of coral populations in the Mediterranean, reducing in some cases their biomass by 80 to 90%.

The results of the study will help to understand what effects these chemical pollutants have on Antarctic ecosystems.

The technology to be developed in the project has an important environmental dimension, since the continuous monitoring of the cable will also allow to detect earthquakes, submarine landslides, tsunamis and study the location and monitoring of marine mammals.

According to a new ICM-CSIC study, mixotrophy can favour the production of marine resources when there is a lack of nutrients or when human activity modifies their availability.

A new study in which the ICM-CSIC has participated reveals, for the first time, how to accurately predict the sex of an animal without sex chromosomes or a master sex-determining gene from a model that integrates all genetic information.