SDG 13:
CLIMATE ACTION

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

University Impact Ranking for SDG 13
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SDG13 Highlights

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Combating the Urban Heat Island, protecting vulnerable populations in Haifa
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
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
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Muddy Waters: Design Thinking for Understanding the Multi-Organizational Problem Space of the Water Sector

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Middle-Out Perspective (MOP) to Drive Renewable Energy
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Elevated mutation and selection in wild emmer wheat in response to 28 years of global warming

By: Fu Y.-B., Peterson G.W., Horbach C., Konkin D.J., Beiles A., Nevo E.
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Global warming has been documented to threaten wild plants with strong selection pressures, but how plant populations re (more…)

Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetative Agriculture Markets in Israel

By: Zelingher R., Ghermandi A., De Cian E., Mistry M., Kan I.
Published in: Environmental and Resource Economics
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: We integrate the combined agricultural production effects of forecasted changes in CO2, temperature and precipitation in (more…)

Publicity waves based on manipulated geoscientific data suggesting climatic trigger for majority of tsunami findings in the mediterranean – response to ‘tsunamis in the geological record: Making waves with a cautionary tale from the mediterranean’ by marriner et al. (2017)

By: Vött A., Bruins H.J., Gawehn M., Goodman-Tchernov B.N., De Martini P.M., Kelletat D., Mastronuzzi G., Reicherter K., Röbke B.R., Scheffers A., Willershäuser T., Avramidis P., Bellanova P., Costa P.J.M., Finkler C., Hadler H., Koster B., Lario J., Reinhardt E., Mathes-Schmidt M., Ntageretzis K., Pantosti D., Papanikolaou I., Sansò P., Scicchitano G., Smedile A., Szczuciński W.
Published in: Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: This article is a response to the publication by Nick Marriner, David Kaniewski, Christophe Morhange, Clément Flaux, Mat (more…)

Irrigation optimization under a limited water supply by the integration of modern approaches into traditional water management on the cotton fields

By: Polinova M., Salinas K., Bonfante A., Brook A.
Published in: Remote Sensing
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The ability to effectively develop agriculture with limited water resources is an important strategic objective to face (more…)

The role of landscape and history on the genetic structure of peripheral populations of the Near Eastern fire salamander, Salamandra infraimmaculata, in Northern Israel

By: Sinai I., Segev O., Weil G., Oron T., Merilä J., Templeton A.R., Blaustein L., Greenbaum G., Blank L.
Published in: Conservation Genetics
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Genetic studies on core versus peripheral populations have yielded many patterns. This diversity in genetic patterns may (more…)

The algal symbiont modifies the transcriptome of the scleractinian coral euphyllia paradivisa during heat stress

By: Meron D., Maor-Landaw K., Weizman E., Ben-Asher H.W., Eyal G., Banin E., Loya Y., Levy O.
Published in: Microorganisms
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The profound mutualistic symbiosis between corals and their endosymbiotic counterparts, Symbiodiniaceae algae, has been (more…)

Lost value assessment of bathing beaches due to sea level rise: a case study of the Mediterranean coast of Israel

By: Bitan M., Zviely D.
Published in: Journal of Coastal Conservation
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Economic losses from public bathing beaches, due to the potential threat of sea level rise (SLR), require economic analy (more…)

Chronology with a pinch of salt: Integrated stratigraphy of Messinian evaporites in the deep Eastern Mediterranean reveals long-lasting halite deposition during Atlantic connectivity

By: Meilijson A., Hilgen F., Sepúlveda J., Steinberg J., Fairbank V., Flecker R., Waldmann N.D., Spaulding S.A., Bialik O.M., Boudinot F.G., Illner P., Makovsky Y.
Published in: Earth-Science Reviews
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC; 5.97–5.33 Ma) is considered an extreme environmental event driven by changes in clim (more…)

Soil translocation at “Evolution Canyon” I (Mount Carmel, Israel) reveals the importance of microclimatic variation for structuring soil microfungal communities

By: Grishkan I.
Published in: Pedobiologia
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: An experimental study involving the translocation of soil from the south-facing, tropical, savannoid, “African” slope (A (more…)

Heat Adaptation of the House Fly (Diptera: Muscidae) and Its Associated Parasitoids in Israel

By: Biale H., Geden C.J., Chiel E., Fryxell R.T.
Published in: Journal of Medical Entomology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Insects are ectothermic organisms; hence, all aspects of their biology are strongly influenced by ambient temperatures. (more…)

Adaptive signals of flowering time pathways in wild barley from Israel over 28 generations

By: Qian C., Yan X., Shi Y., Yin H., Chang Y., Chen J., Ingvarsson P.K., Nevo E., Ma X.-F.
Published in: Heredity
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Flowering time is one of the most critical traits for plants’ life cycles, which is influenced by various environment ch (more…)

Evidence for recent thermohaline variability and processes in the deep water of the Southeastern Levantine Basin, Mediterranean Sea

By: Ozer T., Gertman I., Gildor H., Goldman R., Herut B.
Published in: Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Understanding the spreading pathways and variability of the intermediate and deep water of the eastern Mediterranean Sea (more…)

Feather moult and bird appearance are correlated with global warming over the last 200 years

By: Kiat Y., Vortman Y., Sapir N.
Published in: Nature Communications
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Global warming alters various avian phenological processes, including advanced reproduction and migration schedules. In (more…)

Zooarchaeology of the social and economic upheavals in the Late Antique-Early Islamic sequence of the Negev Desert

By: Marom N., Meiri M., Tepper Y., Erickson-Gini T., Reshef H., Weissbrod L., Bar-Oz G.
Published in: Scientific Reports
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The Byzantine – Islamic transition (7 th –8 th centuries CE) in the desert-edge Palaestina Tertia is examined using faun (more…)

300-year drought frames Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age transition in the Near East: new palaeoecological data from Cyprus and Syria

By: Kaniewski D., Marriner N., Bretschneider J., Jans G., Morhange C., Cheddadi R., Otto T., Luce F., Van Campo E.
Published in: Regional Environmental Change
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: In Eastern Mediterranean history, 1200 BCE is a symbolic date. Its significance is tied to the important upheavals that (more…)

Effect of Fluctuating High Temperatures on House Flies (Diptera: Muscidae) and Their Principal Parasitoids (Muscidifurax spp. and Spalangia spp. [Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae]) from the United States

By: Geden C.J., Biale H., Chiel E., Johnson D.M.
Published in: Journal of Medical Entomology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Colonies of house flies (Musca domestica L. [Diptera: Muscidae]) and four species of parasitoids (Muscidifurax raptor Gi (more…)

Evidence for the Presence of Oxygen-Depleted Sapropel Intermediate Water across the Eastern Mediterranean during Sapropel S1

By: Zirks E., Krom M.D., Zhu D., Schmiedl G., Goodman-Tchernov B.N.
Published in: ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: In the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS), natural climate-driven changes that impacted its physical circulation and create (more…)

A smart multiple spatial and temporal resolution system to support precision agriculture from satellite images: Proof of concept on Aglianico vineyard

By: Brook A., De Micco V., Battipaglia G., Erbaggio A., Ludeno G., Catapano I., Bonfante A.
Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: In this century, one of the main objectives of agriculture is sustainability addressed to achieve food security, based o (more…)

Holocene climate variability and cultural dynamics in the Indian subcontinent

By: Mishra P.K., Chauhan P.R., Diwate P., Parth S., Anoop A.
Published in: Episodes
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
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Climate variability in early expansions of Homo sapiens in light of the new record of micromammals in Misliya Cave, Israel

By: Weissbrod L., Weinstein-Evron M.
Published in: Journal of Human Evolution
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: In this study, we provide the first taphonomic and taxonomic descriptions of the micromammals from Misliya Cave, where r (more…)