Experts: Climate Change Puts Sea at Risk

September 13th, 2007 By ARIEL DAVID, Associated Press Writer Experts: Climate Change Puts Sea at Risk (AP)

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano attends the opening ceremony of the National Conference on Climate Change, in the FAO headquarters in Rome, Wednesday Sept. 12, 2007. Italian experts said global warming is proceeding faster in Europe than in the rest of the world and that the Mediterranean could become a stagnant sea. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

(AP) -- Climate change is affecting Europe faster than the rest of the world and rising temperatures could transform the Mediterranean into a salty and stagnant sea, Italian experts said Wednesday.

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