Despite the recognized important ecological role that cetaceans play in the marine
environment, their protection is still scarcely enforced in the Mediterranean Sea even though …

Abstract Although the Mediterranean Sea is a crucial hotspot in marine biodiversity, it has
been threatened by numerous anthropogenic pressures. As flagship species, Cetaceans are …

Microplastic pollution is a major global environmental threat that has attracted increasing
interest from the scientific community over the past decade. The semi-closed and highly …

Abstract The Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) is a preindustrial phase of pronounced
natural climate variability with a core period from 1000 to 1200 CE. The paper presents a …

The time-mean zonal and meridional overturning circulations of the entire Mediterranean
Sea are studied in both the Eulerian and residual frameworks. The overturning is …

Relatively scant information is available on the Risso's dolphin in comparison to the other
species regularly present in the Mediterranean Sea. Recently, its conservation status has …

SANIFS (Southern Adriatic Northern Ionian coastal Forecasting System) is a coastal-ocean
operational system based on the unstructured grid finite-element three-dimensional …

High-impact ocean weather events and climate extremes can have devastating effects on
coastal zones and small islands. Marine Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is a systematic …

The purpose of this study is to find connections between the North Atlantic Thermohaline
Circulation (NA THC), climate elements, such as cloud cover, precipitation, air temperature …

A multidisciplinary study, which includes micropaleontology, sedimentology and
geochemistry, was carried out on the TEA-C6 core, raised in the Gulf of Taranto (north …