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Investigators at the University of Barcelona, in Spain, say that the collision which occurred between the African and Eurasian tectonic plates – some 30 million years ago - opened up the Mediterranean Basin, but also drove a boost in the diversity of spider species living in the area.
The tectonic event prim... |
1 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Scientists who participated in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 339: Mediterranean Outflow say that the investigation was able to reveal important clues related to Earth's climate history. The necessary data were derived from samples collected in the Mediterranean Sea.
The IODP initiativ... |
23 January 2012
08:48 GMT |
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With the discovery of a 3-million-year-old whale fossil, researchers also made an interesting discovery that left them puzzled. They say that the animal appears to have been plagued by a zombie worm that ate its bones. The discovery was made in Tuscany, Italy.
The worm belongs to the genus Osedax, which was previous... |
1 November 2011
18:01 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) announce the discovery of a direct link between human-induced global warming and the frequency of droughts affecting the Mediterranean Basin.
The research team, which is based in Boulde... |
28 October 2011
03:29 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that early humans may have left the Sahara Desert via Libya. At this point, there are several theories about how our ancestors left the Old Continent, but most of them have been questioned in recent times. Sub-Saharan Africa is widely and rightfully considered to b... |
5 July 2011
05:03 GMT |
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Europe's climate is mainly influenced by the Gulf Stream, experts agree, but a new study shows that currents passing over the southern tip of Africa may also play a regulatory role in this. The implication here is that the continent's climate may in the future be regulated by the Agulhas Current.As the effe... |
28 April 2011
07:54 GMT |
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According to the latest archaeological evidence, it would appear that the Black Sea basin was heavily battered by numerous floods over the past hundreds of thousands of years. Clues that this happened were discovered on the walls of caves in surrounding countries. In a new study, an international collaboration of sc... |
17 March 2011
06:14 GMT |
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Various companies and governments have gotten it into their heads that they need to tap into the massive deep-sea deposits of natural gas that exist in the Levant Sea, a portion of the Mediterranean.The developers want to exploit these fields regardless of legally-binding restrictions placed on deep-sea exploitations... |
9 February 2011
05:46 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that people who are using a Mediterranean diet are more likely to experience a slower rate of cognitive decline than people who are not on this type of diet. The health benefits of these diets has been on everybody's lips for many ye... |
4 January 2011
10:38 GMT |
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Scientists were recently able to conclude with certainty that the western parts of the Mediterranean Sea are currently experiencing warmer temperatures, and larger salt concentrations, than anytime before. The new research spans more than half a century, as it includes data collected between 1943 and 2000. The Spanis... |
21 May 2010
09:59 GMT |
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As global warming and climate change make their effects felt more and more, researchers are beginning to collect enough data to predict which areas of the world will suffer most. In such a study, investigators determined that the Mediterranean Basin, surrounding the sea of the same name, will suffer extensively at th... |
18 May 2010
04:59 GMT |
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Biologists have known for a long time that a wide variety of microorganisms live without oxygen. These anaerobic bacteria have been classified as a separate class of organisms, but thus far, researchers have never observed the ability in more complex creatures. This limitation was exceeded recently, as investigators ... |
8 April 2010
03:34 GMT |
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In a finding that may force experts to reconsider how ice sheets are influenced by climate change, a group of scientists has determined that the global sea levels were higher than today more than 80,000 years ago. The measurements that led to the new conclusions were collected from Mediterranean caves that were flood... |
12 February 2010
03:47 GMT |
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The situation of the Mediterranean Sea is such that it can be construed into a model of what could happen to the world's oceans soon, if actions to mitigate the effects of climate change and global warming are not taken. At this point, the sea is undergoing a large number of changes, including variations in its ... |
11 December 2009
03:08 GMT |
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Geologists studying how the Mediterranean Sea formed now propose that the large body of water that separates Europe from Africa must have been created when waters from the Atlantic Ocean breached the strait of Gibraltar. They hypothesize that a large basin lay just below the strait's barrier, and that it was wel... |
10 December 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The Greek historian and philosopher Plato represents the only Ancient account of the existence of the mythical island of Atlantis. In other words, any other evidence or tale about the “sunken island” is, in one way or the other, connected to the historian's writings. Now, experts analyzing the small ... |
9 October 2009
11:08 GMT |
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The ancient town of Pavlopetri was first discovered in the 1960s, at the southern tip of Greece, near the city of Neapolis. Located only a few meters under the sea floor, it represents one of the few preserved and submerged cities in the world, whose features survived well enough to merit complex archaeological inves... |
19 May 2009
18:41 GMT |
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On Friday, an Italian archaeologist claimed to have discovered one of the oldest-known temples in the Mediterranean Sea area, one that was believed to be more than 4,000 years old. If this turns out to be accurate, then it precedes all other known structures in the region by more than a millennium. Maria Rosaria Belg... |
30 March 2009
05:05 GMT |
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New international pressure adds to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), in regard to closing the bluefin tuna fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea, as Italy and Spain requested the protection of the fish and the creation of tuna sanctuaries throughout breeding grounds, respective... |
4 November 2008
03:30 GMT |
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