by ChiLomb | Aug 8, 2024 | NEWS
From June to early August 2024, Smart Bay S. Teresa hosted the children and teens from WWF Travels campus, organized by Verdeacqua and Scuola di Mare, who spent 7 weeks to discovering the underwater wonders of the bay. These young citizens contributed to the...
by ChiLomb | May 13, 2024 | NEWS
Oysters, bivalve mollusks, perform key Services: they are filter feeders (filtering 140 l of water per day) contributing to keep the water clean; they build underwater structures, the ‘oyster beds’ or ‘oyster reef’ that are actually barriers...
by ChiLomb | Apr 18, 2024 | NEWS
Ellisolandia elongata is a red alga (Rhodophyta) that, as all plants, terrestrial and marine, do photosynthesis, that is, produces oxygen by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the sea. Being a coral alga, it is also able to deposit calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in its...
by ChiLomb | Jul 31, 2023 | NEWS, PROJECTS
Plastic pollution and climate change are seriously treating aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity but the how these two anthropogenic stressors jointly affect the Ocean and its ecosystems is still poorly understood. The plastic contributes to GHGs global emissions...
by ChiLomb | Jan 17, 2023 | NEWS, PROJECTS
Observing, measuring and quantifying the change occurring in the ocean is one of the global challenge with the highest priority (UNESCO Agenda 2030). The extension, diversity and depths characterizing the ocean and its ecosystems, most of them still unexplored, as...
by Louise | Aug 2, 2022 | NEWS
On Sunday morning we did a Clean Walk at Santa Teresa Bay. In a few hours we collected several kilos of waste on the beach and the rocks, mostly plastic, cigarette butts and glass. During our walk on the rocks we ‘disturbed’ some people who were...
