Press Releases
April 18, 2024
Recent research published in Nature Communications demonstrates the power of combining art and science to ground adaptation efforts in the realities of local communities. This study is the first to engage urban adaptation practitioners and experts from around the globe to explain what urban climate change adaptation is through art.
April 16, 2024
A new study recently published in Energy Research & Social Science journal underlines the need to integrate a gender perspective in climate policy. This study, led by BC3 researcher Eva Alonso-Epelde, represents the first systematic review of the literature on the topic from a gender perspective, using the PRISMA approach.
April 11, 2024
Al igual que en los últimos años el Observatorio de la Transición Energética y la Acción Climática (OTEA), una iniciativa de BC3, lanza el Informe Anual OTEA con los principales hitos del año pasado. En este informe se recogen la evolución de distintos indicadores relacionados con el clima y la energía, así como sus implicaciones en la economía y la sociedad.
March 18, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.