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Confluència del riu Ebre i el riu Iregua a Logronyo
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What is the Water Framework Directive and why is it at risk?

The European Commission is considering simplifying the Water Framework Directive. We spoke with Annelies Broekman and Anna Marin about why this legislation is important and how its deregulation could affect us.

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Confluència del riu Ebre i el riu Iregua a Logronyo
Gerard Gaya Gas
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What is the Water Framework Directive and why is it at risk?

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Ángela Justamante
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A digital forest and four cutting-edge technologies to monitor the water in Mediterranean trees

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Anna Ramon Revilla
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The lack of economic incentives, administrative obstacles and low social acceptance leave forest management and its resilience to climate change on hold

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Ángela Justamante
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A tiny arthropod and the research that helped Europe legislate soil pollution

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Marta Josa Bordell
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CustForest culminates two years of innovation in forest stewardship to boost biodiversity and the bioeconomy

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Marina Torres Gibert
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Mosses: what they are and why they are important for ecosystems

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Anna Ramon Revilla
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Deep-rooted plants, key to preventing desertification, at risk from climate change and overexploitation of aquifers

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Alba Gimbert Àlvarez
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The fourth edition of CREAF's internal 'vermouths' puts ecology and the passage of time at the center

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Ángela Justamante
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Riparian and cloud forests are the ones that accumulate the most carbon in the Nicaraguan rainforest

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Ecologist Yadvinder Malhi wins the 2025 Ramon Margalef Prize for his research in tropical forests

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Marina Torres Gibert
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Trees in autumn: why the leaves fall and what happens to them in Mediterranean forests

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Ángela Justamante
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Traveling miles to unravel the secrets of the Congo’s tropical forests: the CoForFunc Project