Short, heavy rainfall is typical of the Mediterranean, but nothing is typical about what has been happening there recently.

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea became a basin of desolation, cut off from the global ocean during what is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). This period saw ...

Discoveries in Southeast Sicily reveal the massive scale of the Zanclean Megaflood, which refilled the Mediterranean Sea and ended the dry, salt flat-dominated landscape of the Messinian Salinity ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

A new study provides compelling new evidence that a colossal 'megaflood' refilled the Mediterranean Sea, ending a period during which the Med was a vast expanse of salt flats. The study suggests ...

The Mediterranean Sea vanished millions of years ago during a two-phase process of water evaporation, according to a new study. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 4.0 Scientists may have solved the ...

The sunny Mediterranean Sea—today a very popular holiday destination ... and 20,000 cubic meters per second. Stock image of a map of the Mediterranean (main) and a flooding river (inset).

From early Monday morning and hours afterward, crowds of Palestinians filled Gaza’s main coastal road for kilometers (miles) as they streamed north. With their ...

Five million years ago, one of the most spectacular events in Earth’s history unfolded as a massive flood refilled the Mediterranean Sea. This wasn’t a typical flood – it was a colossal surge of water ...

In 2024, air temperatures and ocean temperatures once again reached record highs. According to climate researchers, ocean ...

What would happen if humans dried out the Mediterranean sea, turning it into a giant salt ... to avoid the radical increase in salt levels and temperature? These questions remain unanswered ...

During the Middle Ages, the nomadic Turkish people quickly became adept sailors, and the Ottoman Navy proved crucial in the conquests of Constantinople and the eastern Mediterranean. The Ottomans ...