New research shows northwest African communities actively shaped connections and exchange between many cultures.
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To protect orchids from the risks of overexploitation and trade, orchid material cannot be internationally traded without permits.
A ritual and funerary landscape is emerging in northwestern Africa, revealing connections with the Mediterranean, Atlantic and the Saharan regions.
‘Carbon farming’ has huge potential in the region, but diverse soils and land uses present a challenge.
Migration dynamics in Cyprus are partly linked to conflicts in the Middle East and the 1974 war that divided the Mediterranean island. Anti-migrant hostility threatens asylum seekers and refugees.
2 people died in Italy following spider bites this year, but the threat posed by these creatures is often greatly exaggerated.
The team’s work at Oued Beht unearthed the most extensive and earliest agricultural complex known in north Africa outside the Nile Valley.
The popularity of the Mediterranean diet reveals a society in crisis, because it is the opposite of our way of life.
The study of literature and rhetoric were at the heart of the elite ancient education carried out in Gaza.
Even as Germany’s defeat loomed, the Nazis deported nearly 1,700 Jews of the Ladino-speaking community of Rhodes to concentration camps.
Climate models suggest North Africa will get drier in future. But its caves tell a different story.
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.
Top contributors
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Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
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Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia
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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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Assistant Professor in Sustainability & Environmental Management, Coventry University
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Research Coordinator, Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Associated Professor, Department of Geography, University of Minho
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Land Surface Modeller, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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directeur de recherche émérite CNRS sur le changement climatique, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
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Lecturer in Geology, University of Tobruk
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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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Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Southampton