ExIt - ImpactAnt hace investigación sobre cambio global.
Estudiamos el impacto de las actividades humanasy las Industrias Extractivas en el medio natural y la Salud Planetaria.
Adoptamos un enfoque interdisciplinario, combinando herramientas de la química ambiental, epidemiología ambiental, ecolgía, veterinaria, teledetección y ciencia ciudadana. Empleamos conjuntamente las ciencias sociales y naturales para estudiar el Cambio Global desde una perspectiva integrada.
Para ello, seguimos tres estrategias complementarias:
Desarrollamos nuestra investigación en diferentes escalas espaciales y temporales, para acceder a áreas y periodos de tiempo con diferentes niveles de afectación por impactos antrópicos (p. ej. áreas naturales remotas, cambios climáticos pasados).
Up to 11% of worlds rainforests overlap with conventional oil and natural gas reserves. In this context, the occurrence of petroleum-extraction activities in the Amazon and their impact on the environment and those indigenous populations living in the vicinity of these areas has generated a great deal of controversy. A major cause for concern has been the reported high levels of oil-related lead in the blood of members of remote indigenous communities. On a different vein, the use of lead-based ammunition, which in 2003 had a global consumption of 120,000 tons, is a very important source of direct lead release to soil at the global level. This study aims at providing new insights into lead (and other heavy metals) pollution in remote areas of the planet, and at establishing their potential sources.
La caza de subsistencia es una fuente crucial de proteínas para las comunidades rurales e indígenas en las selvas tropicales de todo el mundo. Sin embargo, estudios previos sugieren que la munición de plomo podría representar un grave riesgo para la salud de estas poblaciones. El proyecto INDILEAD investiga este problema mediante el análisis de los niveles de plomo en sangre en comunidades indígenas de las selvas tropicales de Camerún (pueblo Baka), Perú e Indonesia (pueblo Punan-Tubu). Además, el estudio identifica las principales vías de exposición para comprender mejor los riesgos asociados con esta problemática.
To limit the increase in global mean temperature to 1.5 °C, CO2 emissions must be drastically reduced. Accordingly, approximately 97%, 81%, and 71% of existing coal and conventional gas and oil resources, respectively, need to remain unburned. The UNBURNED project will develop the first global geospatial platform integrating policy-relevant information on fossil fuel reserves, state-level political indicators, biodiversity indicators, and social and economic indicators associated with fossil fuel divestment plans, impacts and activities. The platform will be presented in the COP29 next November and will propose sensitive areas that should remain entirely off-limits to fossil fuel extraction. Link to the Atlas of Unburnable Fossil Fuels: https://atlasofunburnablefossilfuels.ub.edu