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

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 ...

Previously, scientists thought the Mediterranean gradually refilled over 10,000 years. Now, it seems it happened within a couple of years, as water 1,000 times the volume of the Amazon River ...

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.