What would happen if humans dried out the Mediterranean sea, turning it into a giant salt lake? Would its wildlife survive, and if so, how long would it take to recover? Map of Herman Sörgel’s ...

Now through Sunday, March 8, 2026, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) presents the exhibition Flora et Fauna: Nature in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Culture. Featuring 85 objects from the ...

CIESM also organises oceanographic cruises as part of the exploration campaigns SUB1 and SUB2, and undertakes mapping of the seafloor, through the production of cutting-edge 3D maps of the ...

The Eastern Mediterranean Sea is subject to dramatic ecological change – while native species increasingly disappear, tropical non-indigenous species introduced through the Suez Canal, so-called ...

Are the ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea inevitably in peril? The growing number of marine heat waves in the Mediterranean are prompting scientists to think that this may be the case. This summer, ...

Fauna & Flora's long-term partner in Turkey, Akdeniz Koruma Derneği (AKD), has been involved in the dramatic rescue and release of a critically endangered angel shark that was accidentally caught in a ...

Prolonged record heatwaves are scorching the the Mediterranean and threating marine flora and fauna. In Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, rising Mediterranean temperatures are threatening marine ...

These may seem like wildly theoretical questions, but not for Herman Sörgel, a Bavarian architect who dedicated much of his life to this exact project: building a giant dam across the Strait of ...