With the return from holidays, the series of micro-spaces produced by the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE) and designed by the Audiovisual Workshop of the Universitat de València has also returned to our screens: Universo Sostenible. The content is part of La Aventura del Saber, a programme that airs on La 2, a TV channel owned by the Spanish public broadcaster Televisión Española (TVE). It aims to bring society closer to the research and knowledge developed by universities on subjects of major social interest, but in a simplified and intelligible way for the general public.

The fourth season of Universo Sostenible has been released this year 2021 and next Wednesday 29th September, its third episode will feature the participation of Joan Romero, full university professor of Human Geography at the Universitat de València, and Juli G. Pausas, scientist at the Universitat de València and specialist in plant ecology at the Desertification Research Centre (CIDE) of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). They will be accompanied by Raquel Nieto, tenured university professor at the Universidade de Vigo; Fernando Méndez, tenured university professor at the University of Cantabria; Félix Francés, professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València; Fernando García, professor at the Technical University of Cartagena; and M. De Carmen Llasat, full university professor of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Barcelona.

All of them will take part in the episode “¿Se pueden evitar los desastres naturales?”, where they will discuss, among other things, natural catastrophe such as volcanic eruptions, which have been in the news in recent days with the eruptions of the Etna on the island of Sicily and the Cumbre Vieja on the island of La Palma. Specifically, the latter erupted last Sunday, 19th September, and the affected area already exceeds 220 hectares, which has forced the evacuation of more than 6.000 people.