The Mediterranean Sea is heating up faster than ever before, and the consequences are already being felt. In places like ...

According to Fox Weather, satellites monitoring sea surface temperatures in the Mediterranean basin identified highs that were "consistently breaking records" throughout June. Vast swaths of the ...

At the western edge of the Mediterranean basin, a narrow land bridge once sealed off the Atlantic. We now call it the Gibraltar strait but 5.33 million years ago, it used to be a land bridge ...

ATHENS (Reuters) -Mediterranean Sea temperatures surged in June in a marine heatwave, with a Greek scientist warning some species are under threat in what has likely been a record period. The EU’s ...

Just when we thought we had described all the possible marine environmental recipients of plastic pollution, new research comes in to overturn the picture. In a study published in Marine Pollution ...

An exceptional "dual feeding" strategy underlies a Mediterranean coral's resilience to rising sea temperatures, according to a study in Nature. The stony coral Oculina patagonica is known to feed ...

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean transformed from a thriving sea to a giant salt basin. The catastrophic event, known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, was triggered by the ...

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a major oceanic current determining global climate that is showing signs of weakening. It transports warmer waters northwards in the Atlantic ...

Shipwreck hunters investigating a patch of the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Morocco have uncovered a “heavily armed pirate vessel” from the 17th century which experts call “a precious echo of ...