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Mediterranean Sea

portrait of Zafer Kizilkaya in front of a waterfront
Environment
‘Nobody believed us:’ Turkish conservationist wins Goldman Prize for expanding marine-protected areas
Migrants fall into the water during a rescue in the Mediterranean.
Conflict
What it’s like aboard an NGO ship rescuing hundreds of migrants in the Mediterranean
Migrant Offshore Aid Station rescues migrants from a rubber dinghy during an operation in the central Mediterranean
Conflict
This group wants to ‘defend Europe’ from migrants at sea
African migrants arriving in Italy from Mediterranean
Conflict
African migrants are reaching Europe with tales of kidnap and torture in Libya
The Libyan coast guard boards a boat in the Mediterranean while humanitarian groups bring migrants onto their ships.
Conflict
Libya’s coast guard is ‘endangering lives’ of migrants trying to reach Europe
Save the Children workers rescue migrants on a boat in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya
Economics
Aid groups rescue over 1,600 migrants in the Mediterranean in a single day
Migrants look out toward the Maltese island of Gozo, as the boat the Phoenix makes its way toward Italy after rescue operations off the coast of Libya, on May 5.
Conflict
Fewer migrants are crossing the Mediterranean than last year. But almost as many are dying.
An Egyptian mother reacts beside the body of her son who was on a boat carrying migrants which capsized off Egypt's coast, in Al-Beheira, Egypt, September 22, 2016.
Conflict
At least 162 bodies recovered from Egypt migrant shipwreck
Italian coastguard personnel in protective clothing carry the body of a dead immigrant off their ship, Bruno Gregoretti, in the Grand Harbor of Valletta, Malta, on April 20, 2015.
Justice
‘I am saving up to take the death boat to Europe’
EU leaders have committed extra ships, planes and helicopters to save lives in the Mediterranean at an emergency summit. More than 1,300 migrants have died in April 2015.
Justice
Destroying smugglers’ boats won’t fix the Mediterranean refugee crisis, this man says