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More frequent, persistent, and deadly heat waves in the 21st century over the Eastern Mediterranean

Highlights This new study, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, was lead by Dr. Assaf Hochman, a senior climatologist at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University (HU) of Jerusalem in collaboration with the Karlsruhe…...

Policy document

Restoring Mediterranean Wetlands – The new policymaker’s playbook for sustainable management and ecosystem restoration by 2030

Restoring Mediterranean Wetlands is a new policymaker’s handbook for sustainable management and conservation of water by 2030. The guide is shaped as a playbook and is available to download for free here. In this handbook, experts in the field share…...

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Summary for Policymakers of MAR1, now available in Italian

We are pleased to make available the Summary for Policymakers of the MedECC First Mediterranean Assessment Report in Italian as part of our ongoing commitment to make the main findings of the report more accessible to the Mediterranean policymakers and other stakeholders…...

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Catalan Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change for the 2030 horizon includes the MAR1 as scientific background

On January 17, 2023, The Government of Catalonia (Spain) has approved the new Strategic Reference Framework for adaptation to climate change known as the Catalan Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change for the 2030 horizon (ESCACC30). This is the first…...

Report

The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries 2022

The General Fisheries Commission of the Mediterranean (GFCM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) published the Report on the State of the Mediterranean and Black Fisheries (SoMFI 2022) based on the work of +500 scientits…...

Book

Oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea – An Introductory Guide

Oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea: An Introductory Guide provides a comprehensive but concise introduction to the physical oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea. The book is primarily focused on the state-of-the-art understanding of the physical functioning of the Mediterranean Sea, while…...