SDG 13:
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COP Conference of Parties, 29th session, UN Climate Change, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2024, Flags

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University of Haifa is Observer at the 29th annual Conference of the Parties (COP) for Climate Change, November 2024
Change of direction - the resilience plan: the Israeli Climate Forum Conference, University of Haifa, 29 July, 2024

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“Change of direction – the resilience plan”: the Israeli Climate Forum Conference, University of Haifa, July 29, 2024
Muddy Water Design Thinking Multi Organizational solution

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Muddy Waters: Design Thinking for Understanding the Multi-Organizational Problem Space of the Water Sector

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Combating the Urban Heat Island, protecting vulnerable populations in Haifa

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Middle-Out Perspective (MOP) to Drive Renewable Energy
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Reduced magnitude and shifted seasonality of CO2 sink by experimental warming in a coastal wetland

By: Sun B., Yan L., Jiang M., Li X., Han G., Xia J.
Published in: Ecology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Coastal wetlands have the highest carbon sequestration rate per unit area among all unmanaged natural ecosystems. Howeve (more…)

Considering change with archaeological data: Reevaluating local variation in the role of the ~4.2k BP event in Northwest China

By: Jaffe Y.Y., Hein A.
Published in: Holocene
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Over the past two decades, environmental studies in research on prehistoric China have been gaining popularity and impor (more…)

New materials of the white rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum and auerochs Bos primigenius from a Late Pleistocene terrace of the Oued el Haï (NE Morocco) – two elements of the Maghrebi Palearctic fauna

By: Aouraghe H., van der Made J., Haddoumi H., Agustí J., Benito Calvo A., Rodríguez-Hidalgo A., Lazagabaster I.A., Souhir Y.M., Mhamdi H., El Atmani A., Ewague A., Sala-Ramos R., Chacón M.G.
Published in: Historical Biology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Most biogeographers considered the Maghreb to be part of the Palearctic biogeographic region, though it is relatively re (more…)

Safety climate strength: The negative effects of cliques and negative relationships in teams

By: Arizon Peretz R., Luria G., Kalish Y., Zohar D.
Published in: Safety Science
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Safety climate is one of the most valid predictors of safety outcomes in organizations. Safety climate studies usually r (more…)

Coastal submersions in the north-eastern Adriatic during the last 5200 years

By: Kaniewski D., Marriner N., Cheddadi R., Morhange C., Vacchi M., Rovere A., Faivre S., Otto T., Luce F., Carre M.-B., Benčić G., Van Campo E.
Published in: Global and Planetary Change
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: In the context of industrial-era global change, Mediterranean coastal areas are threatened by relative sea level (RSL) r (more…)

Patterns of partial migration of the Dead Sea Sparrow (Passer moabiticus) along the Great Rift Valley in Israel

By: Haran R., Kiat Y., Izhaki I.
Published in: Journal of Arid Environments
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Partial migration occurs when a population of animals contains both migratory and resident individuals. Following anthro (more…)

Environment and horticulture in the Byzantine Negev Desert, Israel: sustainability, prosperity and enigmatic decline

By: Langgut D., Tepper Y., Benzaquen M., Erickson-Gini T., Bar-Oz G.
Published in: Quaternary International
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: This study presents a comprehensive paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Byzantine and Early Islamic western Negev D (more…)

Rare crested rat subfossils unveil Afro-Eurasian ecological corridors synchronous with early human dispersals

By: Lazagabaster I.A., Rovelli V., Fabre P.-H., Porat R., Ullman M., Davidovich U., Lavi T., Ganor A., Klein E., Weiss K., Nuriel P., Meiri M., Marom N.
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Biotic interactions between Africa and Eurasia across the Levant have invoked particular attention among scientists aimi (more…)

In situ Estimation of Coral Recruitment Patterns From Shallow to Mesophotic Reefs Using an Optimized Fluorescence Imaging System

By: Nativ H., Scucchia F., Martinez S., Einbinder S., Chequer A., Goodbody-Gringley G., Mass T.
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Coral recruitment represents a key element for coral reef persistence and resilience in the face of environmental distur (more…)

The microbiome associated with the reef builder neogoniolithon sp. In the eastern mediterranean

By: Gefen‐treves S., Bartholomäus A., Horn F., Zaborowski A.B., Tchernov D., Wagner D., Oren A., Kaplan A.
Published in: Microorganisms
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: The development of coastal vermetid reefs and rocky shores depends on the activity of several reef builders, including r (more…)

Sclerites of the soft coral Ovabunda macrospiculata (Xeniidae) are predominantly the metastable CaCO3 polymorph vaterite

By: Drake J.L., Benayahu Y., Polishchuk I., Pokroy B., Pinkas I., Mass T.
Published in: Acta Biomaterialia
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Soft corals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) produce internal sclerites of calcium carbonate previously sh (more…)

A Late Pleistocene high-resolution paleoclimate reconstruction: insights from the archaeobotanical assemblage and the carbon isotope analysis of wild almond (Amygdalus sp.) from Raqefet Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel

By: Belli C., Caracuta V., Weinstein-Evron M., Yeshurun R., Boaretto E., Nadel D.
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Raqefet Cave is located in southeast Mount Carmel, Israel. It contains a long archaeological sequence with two major occ (more…)

Plasticity of Porites astreoides Early Life History Stages Suggests Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems Act as Refugia in Bermuda

By: Goodbody-Gringley G., Scucchia F., Ju R., Chequer A., Einbinder S., Martinez S., Nativ H., Mass T.
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: As the devastating impacts of global climate change and local anthropogenic stressors on shallow-water coral reefs are e (more…)

The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition

By: Seibold S., Rammer W., Hothorn T., Seidl R., Ulyshen M.D., Lorz J., Cadotte M.W., Lindenmayer D.B., Adhikari Y.P., Aragón R., Bae S., Baldrian P., Barimani Varandi H., Barlow J., Bässler C., Beauchêne J., Berenguer E., Bergamin R.S., Birkemoe T., Boros G., Brandl R., Brustel H., Burton P.J., Cakpo-Tossou Y.T., Castro J., Cateau E., Cobb T.P., Farwig N., Fernández R.D., Firn J., Gan K.S., González G., Gossner M.M., Habel J.C., Hébert C., Heibl C., Heikkala O., Hemp A., Hemp C., Hjältén J., Hotes S., Kouki J., Lachat T., Liu J., Liu Y., Luo Y.-H., Macandog D.M., Martina P.E., Mukul S.A., Nachin B., Nisbet K., O’Halloran J., Oxbrough A., Pandey J.N., Pavlíček T., Pawson S.M., Rakotondranary J.S., Ramanamanjato J.-B., Rossi L., Schmidl J., Schulze M., Seaton S., Stone M.J., Stork N.E., Suran B., Sverdrup-Thygeson A., Thorn S., Thyagarajan G., Wardlaw T.J., Weisser W.W., Yoon S., Zhang N., Müller J.
Published in: Nature
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: The amount of carbon stored in deadwood is equivalent to about 8 per cent of the global forest carbon stocks1. The decom (more…)

Reconstructing 1200 years of Hydroclimate Variability in the Southern Margins of the Arabian Desert: Insights From a Paleo-Lake in Southern Yemen

By: Parth S., Russell J., Waldmann N.
Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: The climate of the Arabian Desert is not well documented during the past two millennia due to the scarcity of continuous (more…)

Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests

By: Poorter L., Rozendaal D.M.A., Bongers F., de Jarcilene S.A., Àlvarez F.S., Luìs Andrade J., Arreola Villa L.F., Becknell J.M., Bhaskar R., Boukili V., Brancalion P.H.S., Cèsar R.G., Chave J., Chazdon R.L., Colletta G.D., Craven D., de Jong B.H.J., Denslow J.S., Dent D.H., DeWalt S.J., Dìaz Garcìa E., Dupuy J.M., Duràn S.M., Espìrito Santo M.M., Fernandes G.W., Finegan B., Moser V.G., Hall J.S., Hernàndez-Stefanoni J.L., Jakovac C.C., Kennard D., Lebrija-Trejos E., Letcher S.G., Lohbeck M., Lopez O.R., Marìn-Spiotta E., Martìnez-Ramos M., Meave J.A., Mora F., de Souza Moreno V., Müller S.C., Muñoz R., Muscarella R., Nunes Y.R.F., Ochoa-Gaona S., Oliveira R.S., Paz H., Sanchez-Azofeifa A., Sanaphre-Villanueva L., Toledo M., Uriarte M., Utrera L.P., van Breugel M., van der Sande M.T., Veloso M.D.M., Wright S.J., Zanini K.J., Zimmerman J.K., Westoby M.
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: One-third of all Neotropical forests are secondary forests that regrow naturally after agricultural use through secondar (more…)

High thermal plasticity, and vulnerability, in extreme environments at the warm distributional edge: The case of a tidepool shrimp

By: Amsalem E., Rilov G.
Published in: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Climate change threatens the resilience of species, especially at their warm distributional edge in extreme environments (more…)

Genetic basis of stony coral biomineralization: History, trends and future prospects

By: Drake J.L., Varsano N., Mass T.
Published in: Journal of Structural Biology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Despite their simple body plan, stony corals (order Scleractinia, phylum Cnidaria) can produce massive and complex exosk (more…)

A review on sarcocornia species: Ethnopharmacology, nutritional properties, phytochemistry, biological activities and propagation

By: Custódio L., Rodrigues M.J., Pereira C.G., Castañeda-Loaiza V., Fernandes E., Standing D., Neori A., Shpigel M., Sagi M.
Published in: Foods
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Sarcocornia A. J. Scott is a halophytic edible succulent plant belonging to the Amaranthaceae family. To date, the genus (more…)

The influence of light and temperature on detritus degradation rates for kelp species with contrasting thermal affinities

By: Frontier N., Mulas M., Foggo A., Smale D.A.
Published in: Marine Environmental Research
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2022 |  Link
Description: Kelp detritus fuels coastal food webs and may play an important role as a source of organic matter for natural carbon se (more…)