The Mediterranean will be hit by ever fiercer heatwaves, drought and fires supercharged by rising temperatures, according to a draft United Nations assessment seen exclusively by AFP that warns the region is a “climate change hotspot”. The assessment from...
María Ángeles Pérez Navarro is a researcher at the Centro de Investigación Ecológica y Aplicaciones Forestales (CREAF), where she developed her thesis in collaboration with the University of Murcia (UMU). She has worked on the effects of extreme droughts on...
Professor Nektarios Tavernarakis is Vice-President of the European Research Council (ERC). He is also President of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), and Professor of Molecular Systems Biology at the Medical School of the University of Crete,...
A team of swimmers will swim the whole Costa Brava (120 kilometres) to raise funds for the sustainability project “Stop ghost fishing”, through the KAI project. This is a new action line created by the Swimming Club Radikal Swim, willing to support local initiatives...
The Mediterranean sperm whales are Endangered by human activities. Only about 200 sperm whales live in the eastern Mediterranean. The Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute, based in Greece, is studying them the last 25 years and knows most of them as persons, thanks to...