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The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Venice and its lagoon is one of the most endangered World Heritage Sites in the Mediterranean region, due to storm surges and coastal erosion. In the course of this century, the ongoing rise in sea levels will further aggravate this danger.

Environment

Rising Sea Levels Are a Threat to World Heritage Sites

New research finds that rising sea levels due to climate change will put dozens of World Heritage Sites in the Mediterranean region at increased risk of flooding and erosion—threats many of the sites are already facing.

Mike Gaworecki

Migrants from Afghanistan arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos on August 6th, 2018, after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey on a dinghy. More than 1,500 refugees and migrants have died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in the first seven months of the year, according to the United Nations.

Social Justice

Viewfinder: Afghan Refugees Arrive in Greece

Migrants from Afghanistan arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos on August 6th, 2018, after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey on a dinghy.

Pacific Standard Staff

A general view taken on July 2nd, 2017, shows rubbish strewn along the coastline in Gaza City.

Environment

Gaza’s Growing Water Pollution Crisis

Israel's blockade of the small Palestinian enclave combined with internal governmental disputes has exacerbated the issue to critical levels.

Kaamil Ahmed

Migrants wait to be rescued as they drift at sunset in the Mediterranean Sea some 20 nautical miles north off the coast of Libya.

Social Justice

Life, Death, Rescue, and Relief: A Day Aboard a Migrant Rescue Ship

First-person accounts of a mission to save migrants stranded on improvised boats off the coast of Italy.

Barbie Latza Nadeau

Environment

A Rare ‘Medicane’ Is Forming in Europe Right Now

As the globe continues to warm, these weird Mediterranean hurricanes will only become more intense.

Eric Holthaus

Letter From Ventimiglia, Italy: The African Refugees Waiting for Rescue on Italy’s Mediterranean Coast

Waiting wasn't a misery the Africans expected on Europe's shore. At least a hundred of the migrants felt so desperate that they tried to swim to France.

Gosia Wozniacka

Migrants wait to be rescued by Italian coast guard in the Mediterranean Sea, 30 nautical miles from the Libyan coast, on August 6th, 2017.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: Waiting for Rescue on the Mediterranean Sea

Migrants wait to be rescued by Italian coast guard in the Mediterranean Sea, 30 nautical miles from the Libyan coast, on August 6th, 2017.

Pacific Standard Staff