The Mafia is “weaponizing” fire in the region for control and financial gain, said UC Berkeley researcher Lauren Pearson. She ...

A study by Berkeley scholar reveals that the Sicilian Mafia exploits climate change by orchestrating wildfires in southern ...

The Palermo that we see through Battaglia’s eyes is a city in the midst of mafia killings. But, children are still running ...

She spent months speaking to prosecutors, the police, environmental groups and locals in Sicily, where Mafia groups are active. The way mafias operate — in the shadows and with high levels of ...

The organisation reportedly has its tentacles in a varied assortment of businesses, raking in billions of dollars.

A board game modelled on the mafia conflicts that raged in Sicily in the 1980s has sparked outrage in Italy. The sister of Giovanni Falcone, an anti-mafia judge who was murdered, described the game as ...

Do you find yourself obeying traffic laws in Grand Theft Auto 5? If your answer to any of this is yes, allow me to sell you ...

According to its producer, it is "a conflict game set against the backdrop of a mafia feud in Sicily." The key concept behind the game is that players, who stand in for different mafia families ...

What captured Battaglia’s eye in those years was Cosa Nostra (the Sicilian mafia. This was the golden age of Cosa Nostra, when the criminal organisation was conquering space in the global heroin trade ...