"The Link Between Mediterranean Water Outflow and the End of the Last Ice Age"

A study published in Communications Earth & Environment has found that during the Younger Dryas, the flow of water masses from the eastern Mediterranean to the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar doubled. The Younger Dryas was the most intense climate change of the last 13,000 years and the most far-reaching on a planetary scale. The study applied the innovative technique of neodymium isotopes to reconstruct the conditions in the Mediterranean since the last deglaciation, some 14,000 years ago. The research could help predict the potential effects of global change in the Mediterranean at the end of the 21st century.