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Special Report on Climate Change and Land (IPCC)
The IPCC approved and accepted Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems at…
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IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
This report – the first ever inter-governmental global assessment on biodiversity – has been prepared by 150 leading experts from 50 countries, with backgrounds from natural and social sciences and…
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Adaptation of health systems to climate-related migration in Sub-Saharan Africa (article)
Abstract Health systems worldwide need to be adapted to cope with growing numbers of migrants and to climate-exacerbated morbidity. Heatwaves, water stress, desertification, flooding, and sea level rise are environmental…
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Salinization effects on coastal ecosystems (article)
Abstract In coastal areas, intrusion/irrigation with seawater can threaten biodiversity along with crop yields, and the leaching of salts from areas affected by these processes can increase the salinity of…
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Video on climate change in the Mediterraaen and MedECC (Brut)
In June 2019 a French media Brut. created a video entitled "Le bassin méditerranéen se réchauffe plus vite que le reste du globe" about the risks related to climate and…
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Towards robust pan-European storm surge forecasting (article)
Fernández-Montblanc, T., Vousdoukas, M.I., Ciavola, P., Voukouvalas, E., Mentaschi, L., Breyiannis, G., Feyen, L., Salamon, P., 2019. Towards robust pan-European storm surge forecasting. Ocean Model. 133,129–144. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2018.12.001 Highlights A surge-tidal,…
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The state of food security and nutrition in the world (report)
Among other highlights, this edition finds that: More than 820 million people in the world were still hungry in 2018, underscoring the immense challenge of achieving the Zero Hunger target…
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Increase in severe and extreme soil moisture droughts (article)
Grillakis, M.G., 2019. Increase in severe and extreme soil moisture droughts for Europe under climate Sci. Total Environ. doi:10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2019.01.001 Highlights This study found indications about reduction in future soil…
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Mediterranean Sea and Climate Change workshop Marseille
The international workshop on Climate Change in the Mediterranean was held in Marseille, France, the 25th and 26th of September 2019, in the Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de…
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