Press Releases

March 18, 2024

New study reveals disparities in urban heat vulnerability and calls for targeted interventions

As global warming intensifies, urban heatwaves have become a major challenge for cities around the globe. New research, zooming in on the Basque Country’s capital city Vitoria-Gasteiz, reveals clear disparities in heat vulnerability, stressing the importance of targeted actions to mitigate environmental injustices linked to heat exposure.
February 15, 2024

Monitoring species genetic diversity needs expansion to detect climate change impacts

In a recent publication, we discovered that efforts to monitor genetic diversity in Europe are incomplete and need to be extended to account for potential climate change impacts on species of conservation interest.
December 5, 2023

First microstructural analysis of Monte Perdido Glacier indicates impurities could modify the glacier’s movement and hasten its melting

New insights into glacier dynamics: Recent research published in the scientific magazine Annals of Glaciology reveals that impurities within the Monte Perdido Glacier’s ice are reshaping its microstructure, modifying its dynamics and potentially accelerating its degradation. This study is the first to comprehensively analyze the interaction of different elements within the ice of mountain glaciers, offering crucial insights into their behavior in the face of climate change.
October 31, 2023

Nueva publicación infantil sobre medidas de adaptación al cambio climático en Euskadi

Con ocasión del Día Mundial de las Ciudades, BC3, el centro vasco de investigación sobre cambio climático, publica el cuento “Ilargiker eta bero-boladak hirian / Ilargiker y las olas de calor en la ciudad”. Se trata del segundo cuento de una colección de publicaciones infantiles cuyo objetivo es acercar la ciencia del cambio climático al alumnado de primaria del País Vasco.
October 6, 2023

A turn needed in the carbon industry: Offsets should embrace uncertainty

The forest carbon offset market is built on the idea that you can predict exactly how much carbon a project will lock away from the atmosphere. But exact predictions are a scientific impossibility, argues a new policy research paper in Science. Instead, the market should look to other sectors that successfully manage “unknown unknowns”.
August 9, 2023

A ‘values crisis’ underpins the coupled biodiversity and climate emergency

Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth, a new study published in the journal Nature shows. Developed by an international science commission engaging more than 40 researchers from across the globe, the scientists deliver the first quantification of safe and just Earth system boundaries on a global and local level for several biophysical processes and systems that regulate the state of the Earth system.
May 31, 2023

A just world on a safe planet: First study quantifying Earth System Boundaries

Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth, a new study published in the journal Nature shows. Developed by an international science commission engaging more than 40 researchers from across the globe, the scientists deliver the first quantification of safe and just Earth system boundaries on a global and local level for several biophysical processes and systems that regulate the state of the Earth system.
May 23, 2023

Un equipo de investigación descubre un periodo glaciar cálido que cambió la ciclicidad climática de la Tierra

La comunidad científica lleva tiempo preguntándose cómo cambió el clima de nuestro planeta hace 700.000 años, pasando de ciclos climáticos de 40.000 años de duración a los actuales de 100.000 años. Un nuevo estudio internacional publicado en la prestigiosa revista Nature Communications y en el que participa BC3 identifica un periodo glaciar “cálido” que habría permitido la acumulación de hielo necesaria para esta importante transición.
May 18, 2023

National climate pledges could limit global temperature increase below 2°C, but realisation of pledges subject to multiple challenges

A new study from a global team, including, among others, the Basque Centre for Climate Change, Imperial College London, and the National Technical University of Athens, demonstrates that aggregating together all updated short- and long-term climate pledges is compatible with the Paris goal of limiting global temperature increase well-below 2°C.
April 21, 2023

Society cannot afford to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises separately

Anthropogenic climate change and the intensive use and destruction of natural ecosystems that underpin global biodiversity loss continue to worsen. In this regard, the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis are often viewed as two separate catastrophes. An international team of researchers call for adopting a new perspective