The ocean is the major element controlling the long-term stability of the earth´s climate.

Climate change may affect important environmental components of holiday destinations, which might have repercussions for tourism-dependent economies.

Resumen: Efectos del cambio climático sobre los ecosistemas terrestres: observación, experimentación y simulación. En España existe ya una cantidad sustancial de evidencias observacionales sobre los efectos biológicos del cambio climático.

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming that climate change is a serious global threat which requires an urgent global response, and that climate change is driven by human activity.

On October 10 2011 an underwater eruption gave rise to a novel shallow submarine volcano south of the island of El Hierro, Canary Islands, Spain. During the eruption large quantities of mantle-derived gases, solutes and heat were released into the surrounding waters.