Importance: Extensive fishing in the Mediterranean is removing crucial species from the food chain. Dive category: This is an open water dive. The volcano starts at a depth of eight metres.

However, not every volcanic event produces a megabed. In 2002, the eruption of the Mediterranean volcano Stromboli released a tsunami that formed a bed of material barely 10 centimeters thick.

The mediterranean sea straddles two tectonic plates and is lined by large towns and cities. We need to take the tsunami ...

The eruption threw thousands of tonnes of mineral ash into the air - forced higher by steam plumes created as glacial ice ...

Stromboli is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. It is nicknamed the “lighthouse of the Mediterranean” because of its continually fiery peak. The smoking summit is located on Stromboli ...

FROM the earliest times of human tradition the basin of the Mediterranean has been the region from which our ideas of volcanoes and volcanic action have been derived. When the old classical ...

The white line represents the present-day Mediterranean coastline, blue regions show the submarine area in case of a 2km Mediterranean sea level lowering as it was proposed during the Messinian ...