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Climate change is making fires more frequent and severe in the Canary Islands, pushing plants to their evolutionary limit.
Climate change promotes ideal conditions for catastrophic fires, but the most drastic changes can still be avoided.
Europe is gripped by a heatwave called Cerberus - it may be a sign of things to come.
With a massive territory to manage, all actions taken - to prevent, to detect and to fire fight - aren’t enough.
The ecological cost of the deadly fires in southern France will be enormous. Scientists and residents will have to find a way to rebuild together.
Are the descriptions of war passed down by ancient historians accurate? A site in Sicily provided a rare chance to fact-check stories told about two battles from more than 2,400 years ago.
The Mediterranean region, with its biodiversity, climate, demographics, and economic activities such as tourism, agriculture and fisheries, is particularly vulnerable to environmental risks.
Turkey harbours strong national ambitions, and a willingness to grow and use its military muscle alongside economic instruments.
In the Catalan Pyrenees, women shepherds and cattle ranchers try to valorise the ancestral agropastoral culture to save the mountains from climate change.
But humans can counteract global warming impacts by creating more fire-resilient societies.
More than 320 coworking spaces were identified in the regions studied during the COWORKMed project.
Growing grapes and making wine come with a lot of implications about a culture’s capabilities. Apparently, Sicily of 6,000 years ago was more sophisticated than archaeologists had given it credit for.
Italy, Portugal and Spain have all gone up in flames in recent weeks, highlighting the need to rethink how Mediterranean countries protect people and save ecosystems.
The tropics are expanding at an unprecedented rate. This will have massive implications for societies, economies and the natural world.
İzmir, Turkey’s third largest city, is a pit stop for Syrians headed to Europe – but for more and more of them, it’s becoming a home.
Top contributors
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Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
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Research Professor, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University
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Research Coordinator, Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Researcher in the Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia
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Directeur de l'agence Villes Innovations, Chercheur associé au laboratoire PACTE (Université de Grenoble), Co-fondateur du Laboratoire d’usages culture(s)-art-société (LUCAS), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
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Directeur de Recherche CNRS, Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Chercheur à l’Institut de systématique, évolution, biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)
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Associate Professor in Quantitative Ecology, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Palaeoclimatology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Head of Apprenticeships Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University
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Lecturer in Geology, University of Tobruk
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Professor of Digital Humanities, Department of History, University of South Florida
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Head of Unit of Forest Policy and Environmental Governance, Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia
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directeur de recherche émérite CNRS sur le changement climatique, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
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Senior Lecturer in Earth System Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle
