News tagged with mediterranean island

Mediterranean Sea level could rise by 61 cm

A Spanish-British research project has come up with three future scenarios for the effects of climate change on the Mediterranean over the next 90 years, using global models from the Intergovernmental Panel ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (32) | comments 0

Evidence suggests Neanderthals took to boats before modern humans

(PhysOrg.com) -- Neanderthals, considered either a sub-species of modern humans or a separate species altogether, lived from approximately 300,000 years ago to somewhere near 24,000 years ago, when they inexplicably ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 31 | with audio podcast report

The oldest farming village in the Mediterranean islands is discovered in Cyprus

The oldest agricultural settlement ever found on a Mediterranean island has been discovered in Cyprus by a team of French archaeologists involving CNRS, the National Museum of Natural History, INRAP, EHESS ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Ice-age reptile extinctions provide a glimpse of likely responses to human-caused climate change

A wave of reptile extinctions on the Greek islands over the past 15,000 years may offer a preview of the way plants and animals will respond as the world rapidly warms due to human-caused climate change, according ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

5 ancient Roman shipwrecks found off Italy coast

(AP) -- Archaeologists have found five well-preserved Roman shipwrecks deep under the sea off a small Mediterranean island, with their cargo of vases, pots and other objects largely intact, officials said ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Research challenges models of sea level change during ice-age cycles

Theories about the rates of ice accumulation and melting during the Quaternary Period -- the time interval ranging from 2.6 million years ago to the present -- may need to be revised, thanks to research findings published ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 8

Huge hamsters and pint-sized porcupines thrive on islands

From miniature elephants to monster mice, and even Hobbit-sized humans, size changes in island animals are well-known to science. Biologists have long believed that large animals evolving on islands tend to get smaller, while ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Virtual island could revolutionize tourist trade sector

Three-dimensional versions of Mediterranean islands will be updated virtually automatically with current information from a range of public and private databases. The European research project may launch a ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Black rat does not bother Mediterranean seabirds

Human activities have meant invasive species have been able to populate parts of the world to which they are not native and alter biodiversity there over thousands of years. Now, an international team of scientists ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0