Category: Mediterranean Sea

Rossignol-Strick, M. African monsoons, an immediate climate response to orbital insolation. Nature 304, 46–49 (1983). ADS  Article  Google Scholar  Rohling, E. J., Marino, G. & Grant, K. M. Mediterranean climate and oceanography, and the periodic development of anoxic events (sapropels). Earth Sci. Rev. 143, 62–97 (2015). ADS  CAS  Article  Google Scholar  Grant, K. M. et […]

OPERATION TIMELINE Context 2013-2016: The Italian navy launches Operation Mare Nostrum, which ends in 2014 creating a notable gap in state Search & Rescue (SAR) services. In response the Italian Red Cross, supported by the IFRC and sister National Societies, was engaged in maritime Search and Rescue Operations in cooperation with the NGO Migrant Offshore […]

By Luc Dewulf War in Ukraine, climate catastrophe and political instability are just some of what we inherit from our ancestors today. Tomorrow, we as students will be the engineers, policymakers and leaders, shaping the world to make it a better place. Yet, we can learn from the past to mould our ideas for the […]

Israeli coastal cities are known to have been significant strategic stops for maritime trade. Various regimes controlled these port cities at different times in history, and from excavations it has become clear that wars were waged over these ancient port cities, leading us the understand that they held great geopolitical advantages for competing empires. Situated […]

Attention, collectors: Louis Vuitton’s Travel Book series is getting a new addition. On May 13, the iconic house is releasing its latest volume, Mediterranean Sea by Aurore de la Morinerie. The edition, which brings the series to 27 titles in total, offers a literal deep dive into the beautiful Mediterranean, from the surface to its […]

A beach on the Greek island of Lesvos. Credit: Jordan Kapantais / CC BY-SA 4.0The Mediterranean is turning into a tropical sea due to rising global temperatures, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warned in a report published recently. The Italian branch of the WWF says that due to the climate crisis, nearly 1,000 […]

Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features a spring dust storm over the Middle East in late April 2022. The photo shows dust moving over the eastern Mediterranean Sea.  According to NASA, the dust storm was triggered by thunderstorms that also brought hail and flash floods.  “The dust turned skies yellow, reduced […]

Climate change is having a significant impact on the Mediterranean Sea, according to the National Network for Climate Change (Climpact) Dialogue Forum, which noted rising sea temperatures and increased salinity and sea levels. “The Mediterranean is a hot spot of climate change. The rise in seawater temperature is happening faster than in general,” said Dr […]

It’s time for the last blog post about my journey across the Pyrenees! Before that, I wanna let you know, that I recently started my own YouTube channel. It’s my new baby and it would mean the world to me if you give it a look by clicking here! DAY 36  We slept next to […]

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