Month: July 2023

On a mild but windy day a fishing boat moves across the Mediterranean Sea, when, suddenly, a flock of tiny, dark birds seem to appear from nowhere. Storm petrels! Ancient myths warn that these birds predict an oncoming storm, but their rapid appearance likely has more to do with their reliance on wind currents and …

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The Mediterranean is reaching a boiling point with climate change. Rising temperatures usually come to mind when thinking of climate change. But there is so much more to this phenomenon; there are droughts, record  floods, sea level rise, agricultural damage and risks to  human and wildlife well being. The Mediterranean  is facing all of these …

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