The permanent snow line has risen more than 200 meters in Patagonia during the last 20 years. The Argentine specialist Jorge Rabassa, a professor at the National University of Patagonia, explains that climate change is no meteorological curiosity, but a global problem that seriously affects the environment

JORDI MONTANER | JANUARY 5th, 2011

Asthma, allergies, bronchitis, malnutrition ... climate change will have remarkable effects on the health of everyone. The journal The Lancet has declared climate change as the major health challenge of the XXI century. Respiratory diseases and the health of children are two of the main areas of concern.

ÀNNIA MONREAL | NOVEMBER 25TH, 2010

Plants, through photosynthesis, capture CO2 from the atmosphere. But the decline of marine phytoplankton and the difficulties affecting terrestrial vegetation are causing a drop in the global capacity to absorb this greenhouse gas, a dynamic which will only aggravate global warming.

ÀNNIA MONREAL | NOVEMBER 4TH, 2010

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) still has an important role to play in developing responses to global warming despite the controversial attacks that have tried to discredit it, according to the four Catalan scientists participating in the drafting of the next Global Report 2014, a document to be prepared by 831 specialists from around the world, which will most likely show that not enough is being done to mitigate climate change.

ÀNNIA MONREAL | NOVEMBER 2ND, 2010