Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm ...

At the time, the Mediterranean Sea was almost a salt flat, just a shadow of its current self. Then, the sea finally overtopped. What followed was a cataclysm of almost unimaginable scale—a flood ...

The Mediterranean Sea is nearing a critical deadline set by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to lower bunker ...

Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean Sea far earlier than ... have relied on their knowledge of prevailing winds and sea currents, and navigated by the stars and notable landmarks.

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

The Mediterranean Sea officially became an Emission Control Area for Sulphur Oxides and Particulate Matter (Med SOx ECA) ...

(photo credit: Caladan Oceanic) A discovery at the deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea confirmed that human ... carried from coastal areas by ocean currents. “Part of the light waste, such ...

"Relying on sea surface currents and prevailing winds ... extinction of endemic animals on Malta and other small and remote Mediterranean islands, and whether distant Mesolithic communities ...