Victoria Reyes García, ICREA professor at ICTA-UAB, received the Rei Jaume I Award in the Environmental Protection category from King Felipe VI in a ceremony in which the seven awardees expressed their desire to work to transform reality through knowledge and to open paths where others only see limits.

Adherence to the Mediterranean diet in urban households across Barcelona is low or moderate, despite its widely recognized benefits for cardiovascular, metabolic, and mental health.

ICTA-UAB researcher Dr. Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares is among the 117 leading global scientists selected by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) who are meeting in Paris this week for the first author session of the 2nd Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. 

The first major study into public attitudes toward degrowth – the notion that high-income economies should prioritise wellbeing over growing production – reveals significant public support for its key ideas across both the UK (74-84%) and the US (67-73%).

Scientists from around the world are calling for urgent action to protect, restore, and sustainably manage one of the ocean’s least known yet most important ecosystems: the Marine Animal Forests.

Many so-called low-carbon projects promoted by major oil and gas companies — including hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, and carbon offsetting — operate as false solutions that not only fail to effectively reduce emissions, but also prolong the lifespan of fossil fuel infrastructures, entrench environmental injustices, and reinforce the political and economic power of the very industry responsible for the climate crisis.

Bolivia, one of the most biodiverse countries on the planet, stands at a critical juncture.

From ICTA-UAB, we wish you Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year 2026.

Thank you for sharing with us, throughout this year, your ideas, experiences, collaboration and commitment, all of which continue to inspire our work.

We look forward to continuing this journey together, growing and strengthening Brave Science For A Changing World, and facing together with hope, enthusiasm and care the major societal challenges arising from environmental issues.

The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from ICTA-UAB and the Department of Prehistory of the UAB reveals that Indigenous communities in southern Brazil were hunting large cetaceans 5,000 years ago, around a thousand years before the earliest documented evidence from Arctic and North Pacific societies.

The current publishing system is harmful to science. A new analysis involving ICTA-UAB, Spain, shows that in scientific publishing, commercial interests put profit ahead of advancing knowledge and academic integrity.