Biodiversity Gateway lands in Gargano
Biodiversity Gateway activities are underway this month at 42 elementary school classes in Ischitella, Carpino, Cagnano Varano, and Lesina, in the province of Foggia. The researchers brought the project in this area, developed and tested in the schools around the Venice Lagoon. Here are the Varano and Lesina lagoons, two important biodiversity hotspots in the […]
Ended Biodiversity Gateway activities at the Museum of Natural History, with over 800 students.
Venice, 6 February 2025 – The educational activities of the project ‘Biodiversity in the Lagoon of Venice’, organised by the Biodiversity Gateway in collaboration with the Museum of Natural History and the Sestante cooperative of Venice, have successfully concluded. The project, coordinated by CNR-ISMAR as part of the National Biodiversity Future Centre (NBFC), involved forty […]
Visits to CNR-ISMAR as part of the Winter School in Ca’ Foscari
Venice, 31 January 2025 – Visits to the Biodiversity Gateway https://www.biodiversitygateway.it/ at CNR-ISMAR (Institute of Marine Sciences of the National Research Council) by participants of the Winter School in Interdisciplinary Biodiversity, organised by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, have recently taken place. This initiative aims to provide definitions and tools for understanding and managing the […]
Launched the Winter School “Interdisciplinary Biodiversity 2025”
Venice, Jan. 27, 2025 – The opening ceremony of the Winter School Interdisciplinary Biodiversity 2025 was held today at the Marino Berengo Hall of Ca’ Foscari University. This interdisciplinary training program involves 30 young researchers, graduate and postgraduate students, from all over the world, selected by a scientific committee composed of scientists and humanists from […]
Offshore the Phlegraean Fields a new caldera and an underwater landslide
A study by INGV and CNR-ISMAR has identified previously unknown underwater geological structures west of the island of Ischia. Salvatore Passaro, Cnr-Ismar, interviewed. “An ancient volcanic structure and a large submerged landslide have been identified in Campania. They are located just west and south of Ischia, respectively, and researchers from the National Institute of Geophysics […]
Sea Surface Temperatures and Deeper Water Temperatures Reached a New Record High in 2024
A new study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences has found that ocean warming in 2024 has led to new record high temperatures. The ocean is the hottest it has ever been recorded by humans, not only at the surface temperature but also for the upper 2000 meters. “The broken records in the ocean have […]
Forms of biodiversity. Actions and systems for a new European citizenship.
The Venice headquarters of the National Research Council’s Institute of Marine Sciences hosted on December 18 “The Forms of Biodiversity. Actions and Systems for a New European Citizenship,” an event aimed at providing a broad overview of the topic of biodiversity, jointly organized by the CNR and the National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Italy’s first […]
Video “Women in blue”, ISA and CNR-Ismar partnership
Women in Blue: training opportunities in ocean science, organized in partnership with the Italian National Research Council (CNR) Institute of Marine Research (ISMAR) within the framework of the ISA-Egypt Joint Training and Research Centre to celebrate the 30th anniversary of ISA. The training articulates in two parts. The first consists of a winter school in […]
The Biodiversity Gateway educational workshops at the Museum of Natural History have begun
As of Oct. 26, the Biodiversity Gateway educational activity for schools in collaboration between CNR-ISMAR, the Museum of Natural History and the Cooperativa Sestante has moved into its second phase. After classroom lectures, the 40 experimental classes are heading to the Museum of Natural History, where they can visit the exhibition and immerse themselves in […]
The Biodiversity Gateway educational programme 2024/2025 begins: a joint project between CNR-ISMAR and UNESCO
On Monday 18 November at the Biodiversity Gateway headquarters in Venice, in the CNR ISMAR laboratories, the first ‘Gite Biodiverse’ educational activity was held in collaboration with UNESCO. The school, Tessellations, from Silicon Valley, took part in a series of activities that allowed students to learn about the history and development of the Arsenal, and […]
