The herbarium swallowed Dr. Nico Cellinese. It was a winding maze of filtered light and filing cabinets guarding plant samples dating back decades, but she easily navigated to a folder labeled ...

New research analyzes the causes and characteristics of fires that have occurred in the Mediterranean basin in recent decades, and determines that rural exodus and changes in land use have increased ...

An international team has carried out the first large-scale study of the threats facing freshwater fish in the Mediterranean basin. Invasive species, along with over-exploitation of water resources, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In this column, we have often referred to the world’s five “Mediterranean climate” regions: the Mediterranean Basin, South Africa, Chile’s western coast, ...

A map by the European Drought Observatory shows areas in red where severe drought was recorded in the Mediterranean basin in January 2024. (European Drought Observatory via Courthouse News) PALERMO, ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down ...

A cataclysmic flood could have filled the Mediterranean Sea — which millions of years ago was a dry basin — like a bathtub in the space of less than two years. A new model suggests that at the flood’s ...

We’re still in planting season. Today’s column offers an overview of another group of plants that are appropriate for Monterey Bay area gardens and could be the basis of a thematic garden. The region ...