Water temperatures have surged above 85 degrees in the Mediterranean Sea, where records have been broken every day for weeks.

This week's Sea-Floor Sunday is a really nice synthesis map of bathymetry of the Mediterranean Sea. Click on the map below or here to go to the page where you can see more.

As of 2022, only 9.4 percent of the Mediterranean Sea was designated a Marine Protected Area (MPA) - below the 10 percent global target set for 2020. As covered in depth in the new Statista report ...