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Doctor in Ecology and postdoctoral researcher at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC) in Madrid
Research professor in the Department of Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC
Researcher at the National Museum of Natural Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Research Professor in the Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC)
Researcher in the Department of Biogeography and Global Change at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC)
CSIC researcher at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN) specialised in hydrological risks in the context of global change and member of the Risk Commission of the Geosciences Connection
Senior Scientist in the Paleobiology Department of the National Museum of Natural Sciences (Madrid)
CSIC research professor in the Department of Biogeography and Global Change at the National Museum of Natural Sciences and coordinator of the PTI-Agriambio platform
The decline of insects in Central and Western Europe in recent years is mainly due to human activities and the intensification of agriculture, according to a study funded by three companies (Bayer, BASF and Syngenta) that manufacture pesticides. The paper, published in PLoS ONE, summarises an analysis of 82 other published studies and explains the causes of population declines in two groups of insects: carabids (ground beetles) and lepidopterans (including moths and butterflies). The authors estimate that "anthropogenic activities in general" are most responsible for this decline, followed by agricultural intensification (including pesticides) and climate change in third place.
The Global Carbon Project (GCP) today releases its Global Carbon Budget 2022 report. The main conclusion is that there is no sign of a decrease in global CO2 emissions and, at current levels, there is a 50 % chance of exceeding 1.5°C warming in nine years. The results will be published in the journal Earth System Science Data.
The Karolinska Institute has awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology to Swedish biologist Svante Pääbo, a specialist in evolutionary genetics, for his discoveries on the genomes of extinct hominids and human evolution.