Climate overview

The hopeful climate outlook for 2016

Work is being done to reduce the effects of climate change and for a suitable climate in which to live in harmony. 2016 summary of the climate context.

Polar ice caps

New study of sea level rise

A recent study estimates that the sea level could rise two meters in height by the year 2100. This poses new scientific challenges.

Arctic ice

Arctic ice hits record low

Arctic ice has hit its all-time low, a new negative record that adds to those it has been beating since 1978.

Climate change landscape

What is climate change?

Climate change has devastating consequences for the earth, do you know what causes and effects it produces on our planet and living beings?

Winter Olympic Games. Is your continuity in danger?

Only six of the cities that already held the Winter Olympics in the past century would today be cool enough to host them. Even for the most conservative climate estimates, only 11 of the 19 cities that hosted the Winter Olympics could do so in the coming decades according to a survey conducted by the University of Waterloo (Canada) and the Managemen Center in Innsbruck (Austria).

Geothermal energy. Greenhouses and their application in agriculture

Geothermal energy is that energy that can be obtained by taking advantage of the internal heat of the Earth. This heat is due to several factors, its own remaining heat, the geothermal gradient (increase in temperature with depth) and radiogenic heat (decay of radiogenic isotopes), among others.

New Orleans Katrina

Learn what to do during extreme weather events

The Federal Emergency Management Agency of the United States has offered a series of guidelines to its citizens on how to protect themselves and their families during extreme weather events, which are dangerously increasing in number due to climate change.