Global Change and Contamination

The current increase in the average temperature of the Earth is the result of the human action, through the emission of greenhouse effect gases that alter the natural climate variability. The oceans have had until now a regulatory role in climate through a series of physical, chemical and biological processes that balance natural fluctuations. The pollutant discharges interfere with these processes by altering their natural balance and affecting human health. Policy mitigation and adaptation development scientifically well based is essential for the survival of our planet.


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CIM, UVigo and CSIC staff will study the impact of human pollutants in Antarctica

Aboard the ORV Hesperides, the expedition departed from the Argentinian port of Ushuaia The technicians of the Marine Research Center (CIM) Antonio Fuentes Lema and…

The relevance of the residence time of water vapor in the atmosphere for the study of the effect of climate change on the global hydrological cycle

Professor Luis Gimeno heads the international team that prepared the work. Four years ago was the international congress of the European Geophysical Union that took…

Starts the scientific campaign to analyze the ocean circulation and acidification of the North Atlantic

This Wednesday a team of researchers from the Marine Research Center of the University of Vigo departed from Reykjavik on board the Sarmiento de Gamboa…

The european research Project LabPlas, led by the UVigo, will track the source of plastics in the marine environment.

In the last years many different research projects focused on confirming plastics´s and microplastis´s presence and their impact on the marine environment have been developed.…

The Earth´s stratosphere shrink at a rate of more than 100 m per decade since 1980

The stratosphere, the Earth´s atmospheric layer that extends between 20 and 60 km of altitude and where the ozone layer is, shrink at a rate…

The first phase of the Peiraos do Solpor project allowed the settlement of 187 species in the submerged structures

During 2020 researchers from the Marine Research Center of the University of Vigo participated, together with the Vigo Port Authority, in the first phase of…

The tides condition the distribution of microplastics emitted by the treatment systems in the Vigo estuary

Researchers from the Marine Research Center of the University of Vigo, conducted a study on the transport and accumulation of micropollutants emitted from wastewater treatment…

244.500 euros para actividades culturais, investigación e mobilidade no campus de Ourense

A sinatura entre a Universidade de Vigo e a Deputación Provincial de Ourense do convenio de colaboración anual para o desenvolvemento de actividades de difusión cultural, dotado con 220.000 euros.

Unha tese analiza o papel dos sedimentos da ría na acumulación e liberación de metano á atmosfera

Galicia posúe un dos ambientes litorais máis complexos da península ibérica e as peculiares características das súas rías, vales inundados fai aproximadamente 18.000 anos, espertan…

O International Symposium on Marine Sciences converterá Vigo este verán na capital mundial das ciencias mariñas

O Seminario Ibérico de Química Mariña, o Encontro de Oceanografía Física, a Reunión Ibérica de Fitoplancto Tóxico, a International Science Conference do Campus do Mar,…

O grupo Ecotox do Centro de Investigación Mariña da UVigo traballa para prover á industria de alternativas ambientalmente respectuosas aos polímeros e aditivos actuais

Co obxectivo de, por unha banda, estudar o impacto ambiental dos microplásticos de polímeros convencionais e biodegradables no medio acuático e, pola outra, avaliar a…

Conferencia “Effect of combined physical stressors on early development stages of Fucus serratus”, 16 de marzo na ECIMAT

O xoves día 16 de marzo ás 11h, no salón de actos da ECIMAT, terá lugar unha nova sesión do Ciclo de Conferencias Café con…