Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (AP file photo) Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday issued a series of direct threats against President Donald Trump and the United States, saying that even the “strongest military force in the world may at times be struck so hard that it cannot get up again,” amid […]
Egypt lifts massive stones from the 2,000-year-old Lighthouse of Alexandria buried beneath the sea (Photo credit: GEDEON Programmes / CEAlex) Off the coast of Alexandria, divers and cranes have returned to a site that has rested underwater for centuries. Large stone blocks linked to the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria are being lifted from the seabed […]
For years, scientists studying earthquake risk in northwestern Turkey have known where the North Anatolian fault runs but not exactly how it behaves beneath the Marmara Sea. That uncertainty has mattered. The offshore section lies close to Istanbul and has not ruptured in a major earthquake for more than two centuries. A new study now […]
A 13-year-old Australian boy swam for hours through the sea to get help when his mother and two younger siblings were swept out to sea off the coast of Western Australia.Austin Appelbee was kayaking and paddleboarding with his family near Quindalup in Geographe Bay on Friday morning when strong winds began dragging them further offshore. […]
The US Navy has expanded its military presence in the Middle East by deploying another warship, as confirmed by a US official to Reuters on Thursday. This move comes during a significant military buildup in the region amid rising tensions.An official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the USS Delbert D. Black had entered the […]
How China created artificial islands by dumping sand into the sea in just one decade (AI-generated) Island building in the open ocean is not a modern idea. Cities such as San Francisco and Miami expanded their coastlines decades ago by reshaping shallow waters. In recent years, however, large-scale island construction has increasingly taken place far […]
The United States has intercepted and seized another sanctioned oil tanker at sea, escalating its enforcement campaign against so-called “ghost fleet” vessels accused of moving embargoed crude and drawing sharp criticism from Moscow. This was the fifth such interception under Trump’s administration aim to control the distribution of Venezuela’s oil products.The latest operation, carried out […]
A Russian missile strike damaged a Turkish-owned vessel in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Friday. This prompted calls from Ankara to halt attacks on civilian infrastructure. The attack occurred hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised the issue personally with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.“Russia launched a missile strike on civilian […]
MANILA: Chinese forces fired three flares from an island toward a Philippine plane undertaking a routine patrol Saturday in the disputed South China Sea, but the incident did not cause any problem and the aircraft proceeded with its surveillance mission, the Philippine coast guard said.It was not immediately clear how far the flares that Filipino […]
Source: Royal Society Open Science Beneath the waves off Japan’s Pacific coast, scientists have made a discovery that seems straight out of a nature documentary: a pale pink sea anemone that actually builds homes for hermit crabs. Named Paracalliactis tsukisome, this elegant creature isn’t just another deep-sea oddity; it’s a living architect of the ocean […]
