With the ports of Singapore at one end and Hong Kong-Macau at the other, the South China Sea is one of the most heavily shipped seas in the world. The South Chi

The heights of mountains and the altitude of aircraft are often given as ‘above sea level’, as if the level of the sea was permanently fixed. Yet even in the pr

Tsunami is a Japanese word that is made of two characters: tsu and nami. The character tsu means harbor, while the character nami means wave. Therefore, the ori

The Southern Ocean ichthyofauna is relatively sparse and unusual in composition, consisting of 213 species belonging to only 18 families

Etymology. The first to name it the Baltic Sea ("Mare Balticum") was 11th century German chronicler Adam of Bremen. The origin of the name is speculative. He ma

Few of the world’s seas have come under such environmental pressure as the Baltic and North seas. Both seas are surrounded by cities, ports, and industry and so

The canal is operated and maintained by the state-owned Suez Canal Authority (SCA) of Egypt. The Suez Canal is a man-made waterway connecting the Mediterranean

Geologists once thought that the Mediterranean was a tiny remnant of the Tethys Sea, the great ocean that once separated the world’s northern and southern conti

Europe is surrounded by seas, none of them large or very deep, but they are hugely rich ecologically and culturally. The continent is bound by the Atlantic, the

The Midnight Zone is the part of the ocean where more than 75 percent of all the ocean’s water lies. It starts at 3,281 feet below the surface and goes all the