University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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Viera y Clavijo" researcher of excellence in the EOMAR IU-ECOAQUA research group at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Professor of Quantitative Methods in Economics at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Researcher in the Unit Ocean and Climate of the Oceanography and Global Change Institute (IOCAG) at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC-CSIC)
The Atlantic Ocean's main current system - the AMOC - could weaken without collapsing this century, according to modeling published in Nature. This finding contradicts earlier studies that predicted the collapse of the AMOC around 2050. The research uses models that include extreme changes in greenhouse gas concentrations and freshwater levels in the North Atlantic. This system of ocean currents is involved in regulating global temperatures.
A spill of plastic pellets from containers from the merchant ship Toconao has reached several areas of the Galician coastline. For its part, the Government of Asturias has upgraded the Accidental Marine Pollution Plan to phase 2 due to the detection of microplastics on the coast.
The UN-driven Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have influenced governments' narratives around sustainability, but have not led to substantial changes in legislative action or resource allocation, according to an analysis published in the journal Nature Sustainability that has analysed more than 3,000 studies.