The project Além Risco is reaching the end. A bit of news about in on Portuguese TV. You can also check the project's website here. TV news about Além Risco: https://www.rtp.pt/play/p11267/e673505/europa-minha?fbclid=IwAR31MoyLJnL0scHts2DNIBfgBwa-DD5_inTMCFAZHRLCtmHRVAxBUNssUP0 . . . [ Read More ]
50 years of protected areas in Portugal
Miguel Araújo was invited to give a keynote address in Portuguese parliament about the recently published study "Biodiversidade 2030". You can watch the full presentation on the belo YouTube video (from minute 49:30 onwards). . . . [ Read More ]
Além Risco (Beyond Risk) project
Évora was awarded the title of European Capital of Europe in 2027. As part of a series of documentaries, the Além Risco project that Miguel Araújo leads was featured. This is a capacity building and inspirational project aiming at improving climate change adaptation of local communities through tree plantation in urban setting. You can watch the video below (Portuguese with English subtitles) or . . . [ Read More ]
Is the planet full? TV programme
Miguel Araújo participated in the RTP2 programme "Civil Society" to talk about planetary limits in wake of the 8 billion people threshold that we just passed. The interview can be seen in YouTube, below (second part). https://youtu.be/99ingxYAVHc . . . [ Read More ]
Human disturbances affect the topology of food webs
https://youtu.be/N4D--Wj3JvM What do galaxies and molecular structures have in common? Or trade between countries, communications on the Internet, and trophic relationships within ecosystems? One answer is that they all involve nodes interconnected by flows of mass and energy. In other words, they are networks. The study of networks has revealed intriguing regularities. For example, it is . . . [ Read More ]
Presentation of CORESCAM project
CORESCAM: Studying Coastal Biodiversity Resilience to Increasing Extreme Events in Central America. A project co-led by Rosa Román Cuesta (CIFOR), Ana Rey and Miguel Bastos Araújo (both from MNCN-CSIC). Synthesis: Central America (Mesoamerica+Caribbean) has been dubbed the miner’s canary of climate change due to the marked increase in extreme events and their impacts over humans and . . . [ Read More ]
Lecture: Understanding species diversity
How are global diversity gradients formed? What are the main underlying driving mechanism? Can we tease them apart easily? These are some of the topics addressed in the lecture recorded on the 15th of June 2020 with the title "Understanding Species Diversity: Ecological and Evolutionary Approaches". The lecture was given in the context of the MSC in Palaeontology jointly put together by NOVA . . . [ Read More ]
Opening of the EU Green Week
The 19th of October witnessed the Opening of the European Green Week, this year under scientific curation by Miguel B. Araújo and taking place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Despite the pandemic situation the event went well with a at least a good hundred of people present in the large auditorium of the Foundation and many more attending online. The . . . [ Read More ]
Talk to representatives of ministries of CPLP
I was happy to share some thoughts on biodiversity, climate change and conservation planning to the representatives of the environmental ministries of CPLP (referring to the "Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries"). My presentation starts at . . . [ Read More ]
Conference: Climate Action – Strategic Challenges 2020
I was invited to an interesting political discussion surrounding the strategic actions required to face the challenges of climate change. The conference took place in Porto (Portugal) with the presence of 5 ministers of Portugal as well as many other decision makers. The slot in which I participated about "agriculture and climate change starts roughly at 2h26 min of the following . . . [ Read More ]