When seen on arrival by air, Mafia Island doesn’t appear to be much more than a crescent-shaped splash of green off the eastern coast of Africa. Slightly smaller than New York City, the verdant ...

Rhode Island has a strange syndrome. We'll call it Mafia Nostalgia. It's pretty much a chronic condition, but there's a particular flare-up at the moment, thanks to a series of podcasts called ...

An 'ancient sunken city' discovered by a diver off Tanzania's Mafia island last month is believed to be the Roman market town of Rhapta. Archaeologist Felix Chami, from the University of Dar es ...

It’s not “strictly business,” it’s personal. A city in Sicily is trying to rescind its connections to organized crime by banning the sale of souvenirs relevant to the mafia. The mayor of ...

But at Mafia Island—a New York City-sized atoll just off the coast of Tanzania—the world’s largest fish are such regulars that scientists started to name them.

By Mongabay.com Residents of Mafia Island in Tanzania don’t really eat sea cucumber; they call it jongoo bahari, or “ocean millipede” in Swahili. But sea cucumbers are a prized delicacy in ...