However, history has shown us that the Mediterranean Sea is in a very precarious position. Around 5.97 million years ago, an event called the Messinian salinity crisis occurred whereby the ...

Scientists believe shifting tectonic plates are leading to the creation of a new ocean, the world's sixth. The geological development results from two land masses slowly moving apart in Africa. This ...

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Red P-plate drivers will be restricted to just one passenger in their car from December. The State Government is calling the new rules Tom's Law, after Tom Saffioti, 15, who was a passenger in a ...

Scientists believe shifting tectonic plates are leading to the creation of a new ocean, the world's sixth. The geological development results from two land masses slowly moving apart in Africa.