At the western edge of the Mediterranean basin, a narrow land bridge once sealed off the Atlantic. We now call it the Gibraltar strait but 5.33 million years ago, it used to be a land bridge ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

Israel's military is expanding buffer zones inside the Gaza Strip and taking over more areas of the territory, shrinking land Palestinians can access by more than half.

What we know about the cataclysmic ‘megaflood’ considered the largest in Earth’s history - The Mediterranean Sea, a largely dry and salty basin, was refilled in just a few years – or months, writes Da ...