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According to a study published in the journal 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' (PNAS), global warming could alter the productivity of olive groves in the Mediterranean.

Far below the surface of the water of the seas and oceans, streams of water move like thermal belts that channel temperature and the fluxes of carbon, oxygen and nutrients around the planet. According to a new study by Irina Marinov and Raffaele Bernardello, from the University of Pennsylvania, along with other colleagues from McGill University, global warming could play a role by slowing down the speed of these marine convection belts.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category has been awarded in its sixth edition to Christopher Field, co-chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that deals with Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability , for discovering the importance of ecosystems and their proper management as powerful tools in the fight against climate change. Thanks to the work of this scientist, the effect of deforestation, agriculture and, in general, alterations in plant cover, on the global climate has been quantified. These discoveries, in the long run, have also made it possible to predict the impact of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems.

A new calculation on climate change has warned of a greater increase in temperature than expected in less than 100 years. The key to this new research published recently in the journal Nature lies in the role of clouds in global warming, and the impact of increased atmospheric CO2 on global warming has been studied for decades. However, there are still many unknowns and many factors to analyze.

Thanks to observations made over more than three years by ESA's CryoSat satellite, scientists have been able to verify that Antarctica is losing more and more ice water. According to the data, the frozen continent would be losing more than 150 cubic kilometers of ice every 365 days, much more than estimated in the last measurement. Sea level depends directly on the amount of ice accumulated at the poles.

The Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) has organized an exhibition that can be visited until October 5 on the Avenida de la Constitución in Seville and which seeks to show the changes generated by climate change and how scientists strive to investigate global warming.

Global warming worries scientists a lot, because not only does it affect the heat or cold that humans suffer, but its consequences can be truly catastrophic. An international investigation with the participation of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) has found that the sea level could rise 20 meters by the end of the century due to the thaw.

Animals and plants that inhabited the Australian seas fifty years ago have migrated to the colder waters of the Antarctic Ocean due to climate change, according to a study by the Australian research center CSIRO in which 80 scientists participate.