Konstantina Agiadi

Sep 1, 2024 | phys.org | Daniel Garcia-Castellanos |Konstantina Agiadi

What would happen if humans dried out the Mediterranean sea, turning it into a giant salt lake? Would its wildlife survive, and if so, how long would it take to recover?

Aug 29, 2024 | science.org | Sara Martin |Melody Di Bona |Michael P. Fatt |Konstantina Agiadi

Editor’s summaryThe disconnection of the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic in the late Miocene 5 to 6 million years ago led to the sea’s nearly complete desiccation, leaving only a few hypersaline lakes similar to the present-day Dead Sea. There is a mass of data from both the geological and modern biological records that tracks this crisis and its legacy. Agiadi et al.

Aug 29, 2024 | theconversation.com | Daniel Garcia-Castellanos |Konstantina Agiadi

What would happen if humans dried out the Mediterranean sea, turning it into a giant salt lake? Would its wildlife survive, and if so, how long would it take to recover? These may seem like wildly theoretical questions, but not for Herman Sörgel, a Bavarian architect who dedicated much of his life to this exact project: building a giant dam across the Strait of Gibraltar, letting the Mediterranean dry up, and colonising the land reclaimed from the sea.