Mediterranean Warming Up in France - Languedoc Guesthouse

Mediterranean Warming Up!

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A national conference on climate change held in Rome last week sounded the alarm bells for the flora and fauna of the Mediterranean: the temperature of its waters is rising, as has been for some years. Experts from Italy's Institute of Marine Research (ICRAM) said that a cold current from the Gulf of Trieste, which allowed the waters of the Adriatic and the Mediterranean to mix, had vanished since 2003 due to warming. This could lead to the disappearance of micro-algae, the lowest link in the marine food chain, and could also cause the Adriatic Sea to turn into a salt water lake with no marine life. There might also be implications to the climate systems across Mediterranean countries, with possibly more violent and more frequent autumnal storms in the region. This is not the first time that scientists have warned about the rising temperatures of the Mediterranean. Scientists based in Marseille have already reported the disappearance of certain species of sea-sponges off the French coast.

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