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Stop emissions or else we are going to fry, eminent physicist warns at Cyprus lecture

(Story by Evie Mitsidou Phillips of Cyprus News Agency) We need to stop net CO2 emissions otherwise “we are going to fry”, Joanna Haigh, former co-Director of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London, climate physicist, has warned. Haigh delivered a lecture, on Tuesday evening, hosted at the Cyprus […]

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Climate change and biological invasions: a large‐scale survey based on local ecological knowledge

Are you an expert fisherman? So when you say, ‘I’ve never seen this fish before’, it’s worthwhile to stop and listen to you. A study, published today by the prestigious journal Global Change Biology, collects the testimonies of over 500 fishermen from 9 Mediterranean countries, who tell how our Mediterranean is changing before our eyes

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2nd Edition Mediterranean climate change adaptation awards

The French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), with the support of its Mediterranean partners the Union for the Mediterranean (UpM), Plan Bleu and the Agency for sustainable Mediterranean cities and territories (AViTeM), launched the 2nd edition of the “Mediterranean Climate Change Adaptation Awards”. The competition aims to promote and reward exemplary climate change adaptation actions and encourage stakeholders in the Mediterranean to adapt to

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The love of a Cyprus beach leads to reusable products NGO

A couple’s love for a Limassol beach has led them to set up a social network movement, soon to become an NGO, through which they organise beach clean-ups, raise environmental awareness and sell reusable products of their own design, Eleni Kazelas, one of the protagonists behind “Let’s Make Cyprus Green” tells CNA, in an interview.

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Mobile Pastoralism in the Mediterranean: arguments and evidence for policy reform and its role in combating climate change

The many benefits of mobile pastoralism in the Mediterranean, and the world over, are detailed in a new report from the Mediterranean Consortium for Nature and Culture. This 10,000 year old practice, forgotten or lost in some places, may actually be a retro-innovative system of livestock management critical for the sustainability of our planet. “Mobile

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