Around 5.5 million years ago, almost three quarters of the Mediterranean Sea evaporated into the air – and new research helps ...

So, the sun heats up water in the sea, rivers and lakes, and turns it into water vapour, through evaporation. Then that water vapour rises into the air. As it rises into the sky, the water vapour ...

The Mediterranean Sea today is a critical part of the world’s water cycle, but more freshwater evaporates from it than is ...

Recent studies reveal that the Messinian Salinity Crisis led to the Mediterranean Sea becoming a vast salt basin through a ...

The sea's rising pollution levels are keeping people out of its waters. Scientists issue warning about the future of the ...

During the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Sea, which led to a period ...

Around 5.5 million years ago, a dramatic event called the Messinian Salinity Crisis turned most of the Mediterranean Sea into ...