AUTHOR=Zhang Zhihua , Crabbe M. James C. , Bezzeghoud Mourad , Chen Mingjie , Turan Veysel TITLE=Editorial: Climate and environmental changes in circum-mediterranean regions JOURNAL=Frontiers in Earth Science VOLUME=13 YEAR=2025 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2025.1594165 DOI=10.3389/feart.2025.1594165 ISSN=2296-6463