Being biodiversity a critical element for ecosystems well-being, which is a notion science keeps reiterating, how come there is so little diversity in the research environment?

Lluís Pesquer's story is extremely fluid, clear, direct and touched by modesty. Or perhaps it is filtered by discretion... Who knows? I may be even a heterogeneous combination of both.

At CREAF we are moved by ecology, but also by art. PThat's why we took part in a day organised by the artists Agustín Ortiz Herrera and Carola Moujan, residents of our Can Balasc station, in collaboration with the creative factory La Escocesa. The day allowed us to reflect on the meaning and significance of the forest and its elements in the social, historical, symbolic and biological spheres.

They are 4 students studying Biology or Environmental Sciences at university and come from very different cities and backgrounds. They are united by their curiosity and determination to accept the challenge of joining a CREAF research group for 2 months, thanks to the Summer Fellowship programme.

Under the name PRIMARY, a documentary journalism project focused on imported deforestation of tropical forests was born. The project, led by the photojournalism organization RUIDO Photo, has the advice of the CREAF research center.

The journal Science publishes on Friday 21th a perspective article by CREAF researchers Josep Peñuelas and Jordi Sardans on the imbalance of nutrients on Earth, its effects on life and possible solutions.

[This article has been writen together with Carla Kuhleis, during her stay at CREAF doing an international communication internship.]

The COVID-19 pandemic has arisen at a time when governments were already reasonably convinced of the need to make their data accessible via open data portals. The need in question is a relatively new phenomenon, one with not only technical but also strategic and economic factors.