Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea became a basin of desolation, cut off from the global ocean during what is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). This period saw ...

The largest known flood in geological time took anywhere from 2 years to 16 years to fill up the Mediterranean Sea. While it didn't fill up the area fast, the water was powerful and hit some areas at ...

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of ...

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“Flash Flood Alley” has a long and tragic history of major flooding events. The region of Texas where flash flooding killed more than 100 people -- including more than two dozen campers -- is known ...

Recent floods in Texas have killed more than 80 people, with dozens still missing. The National Weather Service warns that parts of Ohio could see rain and possible floods from July 7 storms. The ...

"This book was published in conjunction with the North Dakota Museum of Art's Oral History Project begun in the early summer of 1997 and directed by Eliot Glassheim"--T.p. verso. Interviews with ...