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...
Populations along the eastern Mediterranean coast share a genetic heritage that transcends nationality by Max Planck Society A new genomic study on southern Mediterranean reveals a genetic continuity across geographic and national borders. The map shows the...
A meteotsunami is a form of tsunami generated by atmospheric conditions that can strike any coastline adjacent to a sea floor with a long, shallow shelf. Image credit – NOAASatellites, licensed under CC PDM 1.0 Rogue waves that strike without warning across...
