Migrant Rescue Operations Navigate a Mediterranean Bloodbath

Beneath the water, the African landmass spears north, pushing into the Eurasian plate where Sicily meets the Italian mainland. Atop the bedrock, the African plate’s undersea Pelagian platform raises islands into the central Mediterranean. Over the ages, prehistoric marine life sank into porous rock below its grabens, forming a 1.5 trillion-cubic-foot gas reserve. Several million years later, British Gas sank the Miskar gas field platform into the seafloor. Its gas is pumped to a Shell-run…