An Assistant Professor Dr. Ali Bassal Mahmood, a member staff at the Marine Science Center, presented a continuing education course for the period 1-2/2023, as referred  above. It clarified the risks caused by climate change by affecting the physical and chemical properties and biological biodiversity within the regional scale in the Iraqi Sea - Norhwest of the Arabian/Persian Gulf . The results showed that there are severe risks affecting: communities associated with coral reefs, increased incidence of harmful algal blooms, primary productivity of phytoplankton, changes in coral species, outbreaks of jellyfish, benthic invertebrates and pelagic fish. In addition to other important results...