Sea

Even in today’s world of drone strikes and cyberwarfare, our ability to control the seas remains a key to global security, Fletcher School Dean James Stavridis argues in his new book, Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans. A retired U.S.

The waters of Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait will retain their turquoise color, caused by phytoplankton, until the end of June, Professor Bayram Öztürk from Istanbul University has stated.

Öztürk, from the university's aquaculture department, said the phytoplankton will remain prominent until the end of the month under current weather conditions.

Nineteen percent of the Aegean needs to be slated for protection in order to safeguard the marine environment and biodiversity, a joint Greek-Norwegian research program has concluded after studying human activity in the archipelago and its impact on important ecosystems and endangered species.

Istanbul's Topkapı Palace is facing risk of collapse, as it has been determined that the ground on which it is situated is sliding toward the Sarayburnu district on the coast of the Marmara Sea. The authorities have also determined that there has been dangerous "ground liquidation" under the palace.

British artist Jason DeCaires Taylor has created what is the first underwater museum in Europe.
An exhibition of 300 works of art, all in concrete have been taken to their new ‘home’ the Atlantic Museum Lanzarote which was opened this week.

Scientists have discovered a underwater pool saturated with salt beneath the Gulf of Mexico that so hot it kills all marine life that centre there. The body of water looks enticing, but creatures entering the underwater lake die.

More than 40 ancient shipwrecks from the Ottoman and Byzantine periods have been found during a mapping expedition in the depths of the Black Sea where there is no light and no oxygen, the Daily Mail has reported. 

Sea lovers have now a new way to explore the marine life without having to come up for air.

Triton, a state-of-the-art oxygen respirator, that allows you to breathe underwater up to 45 minutes and at a maximum depth of 15ft by utilizing ‘artificial gills’ technology.

Researchers have discovered an interconnected series of subsea pools which contain high concentrations of carbon dioxide in the waters off the island of Santorini, Greece.

The traces of oil on the surface of the central and southern parts of the Adriatic Sea near the Croatian island of Kornati should raise concerns regarding the pollution of the sea along the country's coast, said Vjeran Pirsic, an environmental activist from the NGO Eko Kvarner.