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Aqaba reefs face substantial dangers of man-made variety, mainly overfishing, litteringAround 44% of coral species recorded in Red Sea only found along Jordanian coastlineAwareness, law enforcement key to discourage harmful practices, say expertsWork ongoing to put Aqaba marine reserve on UNESCO World Heritage list, says ASEZAAqaba's coral reefs give hope for other bleaching

Aqaba reefs face substantial dangers of man-made variety, mainly overfishing, litteringAround 44% of coral species recorded in Red Sea only found along Jordanian coastlineAwareness, law enforcement key to discourage harmful practices, say expertsWork ongoing to put Aqaba marine reserve on UNESCO World Heritage list, says ASEZAAqaba's coral reefs give hope for other bleaching

AQABA, Jordan – Dozens of tiny, dazzlingly colorful fish swim around a maze of layer upon layer of corals. When divers approach, they hide near a dome-shaped colony. In the clear, warm waters of Aqaba, clownfish, butterflyfish and angelfish swim next to a military tank deliberately sunk in the 1990s, now one of several wrecks […]

An interview with the head of a project to safeguard and study corals in the Red Sea, which are particularly resistant to climate change.

Scientific expedition to boost conservation efforts was to see collaboration with Sudan, but vessel hit a reef passing the Straits of Tiran

Sue Surkes is The Times of Israels environment reporter. The Fleur de Passion research ship before it left Eilat in southern Israel for Port Sudan, July 19, 2021. ((Marcos Schonholz) A planned survey of Red Sea corals by an international team of scientists will need to be postponed until next year after the much-heralded expedition ran aground just a day after setting sail from Eilat last week, one of the scientists on board said Sunday. The Fleur de Passion, a former Nazi ship re-outfitted to ...

A multinational team of marine scientists set sail from Eilat to Sudan Tuesday on board a ship originally built by the Nazis, kicking off a groundbreaking project to assess the health of corals throughout the Red Sea. The six coral experts, from Israel, Switzerland, France and the UK, will join four crew members for a five-day journey to Port Sudan. There, six Sudanese researchers will join the team for studies due to last until September. Advertisement The project, which will stretch ove...

The civil war in Yemen has suspended essential maintenance on the increasingly fragile vessel with more than 1 million barrels of oil in its hold and hindered disaster preparedness.

DAHAB, Egypt — A decaying super-tanker anchored off Yemen with 1.1 million barrels of Marib light crude oil in its hold looks increasingly likely to wreak havoc in the Red Sea, experts are warning. Talks between the U.N. and the Houthi administration in control of the area aimed at brokering a deal for international intervention […]

Red Sea corals to persist, even as other corals succumb to global warming By (0) Researchers studied corals in the Gulf of Aqaba, at the northern tip of the Red Sea, to gain understanding of their particular resistance to higher temperatures -- and learn how to better protect them. Photo by Romain Savary/EPFL May 4 (UPI) -- New lab experiments have shed light on the ability of corals in the Red Seas Gulf of Aqaba to survive rising ocean temperatures...