The discovery shows "the cruelest side" of the migration route, regional president Marga Prohens told local media.

Off the coast of Sicily, Sea Shepherd and its volunteers are hunting down illegal fish traps and working with Italian authorities to crack down on this environmental crime.

The Mediterranean Sea is a rather young body of water that formed around five and a half million years ago, as a result of the world’s biggest flood which ocean-ified a previously hot, dry desert.

The Mediterranean Sea may evoke images of luxurious beach holidays, scrumptious seafood meals and endless sandy beaches, but ...

Migrants on Italy's Lampedusa Island on September 15, 2023. According to the U.N., 1,536 people have died or gone missing and are presumed dead in the central Mediterranean this year.

The Mediterranean Sea, a largely dry and salty basin, was refilled in just a few years – or months, writes Daniel García-Castellanos Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent ...

The UN’s Environmental Program says sea catches in the Mediterranean have fallen by 34% in the last 50 years, due to both over-fishing and plastics in the water.