Sicily

Syrian refugee girl rests inside the Spanish rescue vessel Astral after being rescued by the Spanish NGO Proactiva off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea.

Migrants desperate to flee Libya’s detention camps are being turned back at sea

November 27, 2017Conflict

Refugees crammed onto rickety boats for the trip from Libya to Italy are increasingly being intercepted and sent back to Libya.

Italy’s Mafia Gets Into Renewables

August 15, 2013Conflict & Justice

Science Note: Supermolecular Suitcases

August 15, 2013

Bridging the Straits of Messina

August 14, 2013

Love and Death in the Seas of Sicily

August 14, 2013

Mediterranean island

August 14, 2013Global Politics

The shores of a Mediterranean island are on our radar today. It’s part of Italy, the largest the three Pelagian Islands south of Sicily. Thousands of Tunisians recently fled to this tiny Italian outpost. Can you name the Italian island they’ve landed on?