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Polibienestar promotes Agro2Circular, a circular economy project in Murcia to recycle and revalue agri-food waste

28/06/24

The Research Institute on Social Welfare Policy (Polibienestar) of the University of Valencia has launched the Agro2Circular project, aimed at developing and implementing an innovative technological solution for recycling and revaluing the most significant agri-food waste, such as fruits,...

Research shows that cells that interpret an increase in nutrients accelerate ageing and shorten lifespan

07/06/24

Cells receive signals of an increase in nutrients, which leads to malfunction and inflammation in organs such as the pancreas, liver or kidneys. This is a discovery from the CNIO team and the Universitat de València, published in Nature Aging. Its proposal is to target only the inflammation...

Fires caused by global change reduce the abundance and diversity of woody plants

05/06/24

The team at the Desertification Research Centre (CIDE, UV-CSIC-GVA) has carried out the first global, systematic and quantitative study on the effects of changes in fire regime on vegetation. The results show that intensified fire regimes reduce woody plants abundance, diversity and fitness,...

66% of Valencian citizens are committed to waste sorting

21/05/24

Two out of three citizens in the metropolitan area of Valencia have a positive or very positive attitude (enthusiasts and committed) towards waste sorting, according to a report by the Institute of International Economics of the Universitat de València. This report is a result of an agreement with...

A UV team develops a pioneering solution for converting wood waste into electricity

10/04/24

In a revolutionary advance towards energy sustainability, an international research team led by Mario Culebras, professor in the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Universitat de València and researcher at the UV's Institute of Materials Science, and Maurice Collins, professor at the...

Rainy days in the Segura river basin were reduced by 14% between 1987 and 2021 compared to the previous 34 years

09/02/24

Research by the University of Valencia (UV) concludes that the headwaters of the Segura, Guadiana, Guadalquivir and Júcar river basins receive less and less water from precipitation and, therefore, their recharge is less. The study reveals that rainy days have been reduced by 14% in the period...

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