The serene turquoise waters of the Mediterranean Sea hide a sharp-tasting secret: a layer of salt up to two miles thick, lurking deep underneath the basin. The ghostly white minerals are one of ...

The Mediterranean Sea as we know it today formed about 5.3 million years ago when Atlantic Ocean waters breached the strait of Gibraltar, sending a massive flood into the basin.

In a nutshell Scientists have found definitive evidence of Earth’s largest known flood, which occurred 5 million years ago when Atlantic waters burst through Gibraltar and rapidly refilled the ...

Temperatures in the Mediterranean basin are increasing much faster than the global average, threatening food and water supplies, scientists warned Thursday in a new study. "We are one of the ...

The Mediterranean basin is expected to reach an average warming of 3.8°C to 6.5°C by 2100, depending on greenhouse gas emission scenarios, as shown in a benchmark report published in 2020.

Mediterranean Sea dropped during the Messinian Salinity Crisis -- a major geological event that transformed the Mediterranean into a gigantic salt basin between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago 2.

Temperatures in the Mediterranean basin are increasing much faster than the global average, threatening food and water supplies, scientists warned Thursday in a new study. "We are one of the ...