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The scientific knowledge on climate and environmental change in the Mediterranean evolves rapidly. In this section we collect and present the recently published scientific articles, reports, books, policy papers and other contents on these issues. Do not hesitate to contact us and share with us the publications of an interest to the community.
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A large area of southwestern Europe and northern Africa experienced extremely high temperatures usually at the end of April 2023. The record-shattering temperatures broke temperature records by a large margin, against the backdrop of an intense drought. Scientists from Morocco,…...
MedECC News
The external review which started in mid-May 2023 for a period of 6 weeks has been extended to ensure a successful review and will now close on 17 July 2023. It will not be possible to provide comments after this…...
Scientific Publications
This two part studies lead by Leonardo Valerio Noto (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy) focuses on the main recent works on climate change in the Mediterranean Basin across the last ten years of research to review the main observed…...
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The new research study explores the adaptation capacities for crop farmers to the impacts of the warming climate. The study is mapping the potential of soil- crop- and water-based adaptations to contrast drought and heat stress in farms across the…...
MedECC News, Infographics
The MedECC infographic on Water and food in the Mediterranean is now available in Spanish: 'Agua y Alimentos en el Mediterráneo'. This infographic is based on the Chapters 3.1 “Resources, Water” and Chapter 3.2 “Resources, Food” of the First Mediterranean…...
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Graphical abstract Abstract Marine heat waves (MHW), considered as persistent and spatially extensive sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies, have emerged as one of the global change-induced high impact events on the oceans. The study of MHWs received significant progress in…...