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Cyprus asserts itself as regional hub for climate-change research

Proposed science institute will focus on the Mediterranean and Middle East, regions that will be hard hit by global warming.
  1. Anita Makri
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The tiny island of Cyprus is reshaping itself into a regional hub for climate-change research. The country lies at the meeting point of the Mediterranean, the Middle East and North Africa — areas where climate change is expected to take a heavy toll in the coming decades, but where research capacity to address the issue is limited.

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Nature 559, 15-16 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05528-9

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