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SeafoodNews
April 26, 2018
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euronews
April 25, 2018
63 migrants were rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by the Italian coast guard on Monday. Around 1000 migrants have been rescued in the Meditteranean in the last few days as calm weather conditions made it easier for vessels to depart. According to the United Nations High Commissioner forÃâà...
Vox
April 25, 2018
And the answer raised new questions about Trump, mostly centering on the Mediterranean Sea. You can sort of squint and make sense of what he's saying when he says Iran shouldn't have “open season to the Mediterranean”; Syria has a decent length of coastline on the sea, and Iran will have access toÃâà...
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
April 24, 2018
For this reason, Ecologists in Action are urging the Spanish government to join up with France, which has led the drive to create Sulphur Emissions Control Areas, to radically limit the entrance of highly polluting shipping in the Mediterranean Sea. To this end, Ecologists have invited, not just thoseÃâà...
Ship & Bunker
April 24, 2018
German green group Control Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) and Spain-based Ecologists in Action have made a renewed call for the creation of an emission control area (ECA) in the Mediterranean Sea. The call comes after the groups say they carried out measurements ofÃâà...
euronews
April 24, 2018
Italian coast guards rescue migrants as vessel capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea. The Italian coast guard rescued 63 migrants from the Meditteranean Sea on Monday after their vessel capsized. Read full articleÃâà...
Eurasia Daily
April 24, 2018
Russian Black Sea warships, Admiral Grigorovich and Admiral Essen frigates, Pytlivy and Smetlivy escort vessels are on a combat drill in the Mediterranean Sea, the Russian defense ministry informs. As they say at the ministry, during the drill, the warships are to practice the procedure of naval battle.
112 International (blog)
April 22, 2018
Preservation of the ship in the Mediterranean Sea can lead to a violation of the order of rotation of aircraft carriers in the Middle East. 17:21, 22 ... According to sources, the American leadership may leave its aircraft carrier Harry Truman in the Mediterranean Sea to "contain" Russia, Defense News reports.
Sputnik International
April 22, 2018
Earlier this week, a US strike group led by the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman entered the Mediterranean Sea, six days after the US, Britain and France ... Leaving a Norfolk base on April 11, the USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group entered the Mediterranean Sea on April 19, almost a week after the US,Ãâà...
Stars and Stripes
April 20, 2018
NAPLES, Italy — The USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group has entered the Mediterranean Sea, less than a week after the U.S. launched missile strikes on suspected chemical weapons sites in Syria. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier Truman deployed April 11 from Norfolk and arrived in the 6th FleetÃâà...
Earthquake Report
April 20, 2018
Have you felt the shaking? If Yes, tell us by using the I FELT IT form behind the earthquake or at the bottom of this page. Using our EQ Report iOS or Android app would even be easier and very informative (links in banner above this text). –. Most important Earthquake Data: Magnitude : 3.3. Local TimeÃâà...
The Intercept
April 20, 2018
In August 2017, an Italian prosecutor ordered police to seize and impound the Iuventa, a ship operated by the German nonprofit Jugend Rettet, in Trapani, a port in western Sicily. The Iuventa is used to rescue migrants attempting the perilous sea crossing between North Africa and Italy, but the prosecutorÃâà...
USNI News
April 19, 2018
Along with sailing in the Mediterranean Sea, the strike group is expected to also operate in the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf during this deployment. “We are thrilled to have the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group here in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations and look forward to having them on ourÃâà...
The State Press
April 19, 2018
On Monday, we went to the Mediterranean Sea. First, we visited Saintes Maries de la Mer. The church there honors the three women who discovered that Jesus was no longer in his tomb. Apparently, these three women, made into saints, washed up on the shore of this village. Each year, people will go on aÃâà...
Times of Malta
April 17, 2018
The Valletta International Arts Festival features the collective exhibition Found a mentalism, which focuses on issues surrounding the Mediterranean Sea while also exploring the current global increase in war and persecution. Through the work of different artists and works, the exhibition highlights theÃâà...
UkrAgroConsult
April 17, 2018
Iran intends to build a highway through Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, providing itself access to the Mediterranean Sea. According to Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, Tehran concluded bilateral agreements on construction of a 1.700-kilometer highway with Iraqi and Syrian authorities. The highway will connect IranÃâà...
Danbury News Times
April 15, 2018
DoD Video Shows Submarine Missile Launch From Mediterranean Sea For Syria Operation. Error loading player: No playable sources found. Now Playing: The US has released a video showing missiles launched from a submarine as part of the Syria operation. / GeoBeatsÃâà...
CT Post
April 15, 2018
DoD Video Shows Submarine Missile Launch From Mediterranean Sea For Syria Operation. Error loading player: No playable sources found. Now Playing: The US has released a video showing missiles launched from a submarine as part of the Syria operation. / GeoBeatsÃâà...
Sputnik International
April 14, 2018
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) figures, 16,847 migrants and refugees have entered Europe via the Mediterranean Sea since the beginning of 2018, while the number of migrants who died in the Mediterranean en route to Europe amounted to 557. In 2017, MediterraneanÃâà...
TASS
April 14, 2018
"Warships and submarines of the Russian naval taskforce are keeping track at a close distance of US and NATO assault ships and submarines in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea," the source said. According to the source, the force is tasked to monitor the underwater, surface and air situation in theÃâà...
TIME
April 13, 2018
The Times of London reports that the U.S. Navy is sending a total of ten warships and two submarines into the Mediterranean Sea. Any Navy task force will likely be led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier the U.S.S. Harry S. Truman, which set out from Norfolk, Virginia, this week with a strike group of fiveÃâà...
Ahval
April 13, 2018
The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, including five U.S. warships equipped with Tomahawk and a German Frigate as well as Harry S. Truman Aircraft Carrier departed Norfolk in the United States and headed towards the Middle East and Mediterranean Sea on April 11 for a scheduled deployment.
Sputnik International
April 8, 2018
Iran plans to build a highway connecting Tehran with cities in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon and provide the country with access to the Mediterranean Sea, Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper reported. According to the media outlet, Iranian authorities have already signed bilateral agreements on the construction of aÃâà...
Science Daily
March 31, 2018
The iconic cone-like structure of Mount Etna could have been created after water levels in the Mediterranean Sea rose following an extended period of ... with past abrupt changes in ocean levels implies that Etna's antics are at least in part orchestrated by fluctuating waters of the Mediterranean Sea.".
Independent Newspapers Limited
March 29, 2018
Abeokuta – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed that no fewer than 2,000 Nigerian youths perish in the Mediterranean Sea every year. He therefore charged the youths to be contented with the nation's present situation, and work hard, saying that it is through only hard work that can makeÃâà...
Egypt Independent
March 29, 2018
Head of the Environmental Affairs Agency Mohamed Shehab said that four turtles were released back into their natural habitat in the past two days after they were unlawfully taken, and that legal action will be taken against the violators who hunted them, in cooperation with the concerned authorities.
Newsweek
March 28, 2018
In a study published in the journal Nature, researchers reported new evidence of the “Zanclean megaflood,” or “Zanclean deluge.” The Zanclean, for which this event was named, was the earliest stage of the Pliocene epoch. Archaeological evidence suggests that a great flood, one reminiscent of the Noah'sÃâà...
TRT World
March 27, 2018
Israeli-Lebanese tensions have flared recently over the maritime gas exploration areas in the Mediterranean Sea - one component of the broader clash between the two countries. Since Israel began voicing its concerns regarding Iranian arms supplies to Hezbollah and the rising power of Hezbollah inÃâà...
The Weather Channel
March 26, 2018
Mount Etna is moving toward the Mediterranean Sea at a rate of 14 millimeters per year, a new study has found. The study's lead author said there's no ... Europe's most active volcano is slowly moving toward the Mediterranean Sea, scientists have found. Sicily's Mount Etna is sliding 14 millimeters per yearÃâà...
Scientific American
March 26, 2018
Six million years ago the Mediterranean Sea was a very different place than it is today. Plate tectonics had closed the Strait of Gibraltar separating modern-day Spain and Morocco, leaving the Mediterranean cut off from the Atlantic Ocean. The newly enclosed sea succumbed to evaporation, its water levelÃâà...
Cosmos
March 25, 2018
Once upon a time there was a massive flood across the Mediterranean Sea, an in-pouring of water so huge that it excavated a canyon five kilometres deep and 20 kilometres long, and created a waterfall with a 1.5 kilometre drop. Evidence for the great flood, long hypothesised, has now been found by aÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 25, 2018
British experts have found that Mount Etna, which is on the east coast of the island of Sicily in Italy, is on the verge of collapse as it slides 14mm to the Mediterranean Sea every year. It is one of the most active volcanoes in the world with a history of violent eruptions. Geologist Dr John Murray has spentÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 24, 2018
Mount Etna, Europe's largest and most active volcano, is slowly sliding towards the Mediterranean Sea, scientists have observed. The entire 3,350m (11,000ft) stratovolcano, located on the east coast of the Italian island of Sicily, is currently moving downslope at an average rate of 14 mm per year - or 1.4Ãâà...
The Weather Channel
March 23, 2018
NASA's Terra satellite shows a dust plume (light brown) emerging off the coast of northern Africa into the Mediterranean Sea and over the Greek island of Crete on Thursday, March 22, 2018. Areas of ... The weather setup which allowed African dust to move over the Mediterranean Sea and into Crete on Thursday. (MORE:Ãâà...
Discover Magazine (blog)
March 23, 2018
One of the largest floods in Earth's history may have deluged the Mediterranean Sea more than 5.3 million years ago, leaving behind a mass of debris roughly the size of Greece's largest island, Crete, researchers say. Scientists investigated a roughly 640,000-year span of time starting nearly 6 million yearsÃâà...
Phys.Org
March 22, 2018
Marine scientists have uncovered evidence of one of the largest floods in Earth's history in the central Mediterranean seafloor. The flood, known as the Zanclean flood, is thought to have ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), a period during which the Mediterranean Sea became partially dried up.
Stars and Stripes
March 16, 2018
NAPLES, Italy — Ten allied navies have converged in the Mediterranean Sea this month to practice fighting submarines and surface warships, as a resurgent Russia expands its naval presence in the region. Dynamic Manta is an annual, 11-day NATO exercise meant to improve coordination betweenÃâà...
Science Magazine
March 15, 2018
These people were also found with small, sophisticated stone arrowheads and points, and 20th century archaeologists assumed they were part of an advanced European culture that had migrated across the Mediterranean Sea to North Africa. But now, their ancient DNA—the oldest ever obtained fromÃâà...
EcoWatch
March 15, 2018
Red-faced and with his hair still wet, Hani Abu Amirah's grandson sobbed as he shuffled over to where she sat, looking out on the Mediterranean Sea from Gaza's Shati refugee camp. The boy's distress stemmed from his decision to go swimming a little earlier that morning, one that incurred his father's wrath when he wasÃâà...
CNN
March 14, 2018
As a direct result, countless migrants have fallen prey to trafficking, kidnapping, torture, rape and death in the desert and on the Mediterranean Sea. This is not only true of Libya, it's a story that often begins far away at the start of the journey in places like Ghana, Bangladesh or Nigeria. The cruel exploitationÃâà...
MarketWatch
March 14, 2018
If the deal advances, it would allow Israel to quickly export some of the extensive reserves of natural gas found in the Mediterranean Sea west of Haifa. Italy's Eni SpA ENI, -0.36% and Total last month announced a new discovery off Cyprus. The two oil giants are also working together to explore in disputedÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 13, 2018
The eastern Mediterranean Sea has become a very busy place, and pressure abounds among coastal neighbors there. Governments are declaring exclusive economic zones (EEZs), but they overlap. States are granting duplicate licenses for natural gas exploration and drilling. Mammoth energyÃâà...
Goshen News
March 12, 2018
Each turn in the road brings us higher above the Mediterranean coast and our small village becomes only one part of the conglomeration built along the sea below. As we reach the top, the panorama opens up. Mountains carved by age loom behind us, some with hilltop villages, and the Mediterranean seaÃâà...
360Nobs.com
March 11, 2018
No fewer than 50 Nigerian migrants were among the hundreds of migrants rescued today in the Mediterranean by Libya's coastguard and an international charity, Doctors Without Borders(MSF). The Nigerians were aboard a boat with 110 migrants. They were rescued by Aquarius, a ship being operated byÃâà...
Newshub
March 11, 2018
International charity ships and Libya's coastguard have picked up several hundred migrants as smugglers trying to take advantage of calm seas launched a flurry of boats towards Italy. Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted two of the migrant boats on Saturday, the first an inflatable dinghy that had brokenÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 9, 2018
IOM reports 442 migrants are estimated to have died this year on the Mediterranean Sea's three routes. Most recently, 21 people went missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Libya on Saturday, 3 March. A Cypriot merchant vessel rescued 30 survivors from the sinking boat and transferred them to SOSÃâà...
Upstream Online
March 9, 2018
Egypt, banking on its success as a prolific offshore gas basin, is opening up frontier areas in the Mediterranean Sea to international oil companies as part of a comprehensive new exploration push, writes Nassir Shirkhani. The omens are good thanks to the 2015 discovery of the giant Zohr field by Italy's EniÃâà...
Phys.Org
March 9, 2018
From east to west, the image features the islands of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea, Italy and across the Adriatic Sea to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and to the western edges of Romania. To the north and partly obscured by clouds, lie Germany, Switzerland, Austria and theÃâà...
Eos
March 9, 2018
The Dead Sea is a hypersaline lake located in a hyperarid region at the lowest place on Earth (~430 meters below sea level) between Israel and Jordan, about 80 kilometers from the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Each evening during summer, sea breezes from the Mediterranean waft over itsÃâà...
EU News
March 8, 2018
Today the European Commission has proposed a multi-annual plan for fish stocks in the western Mediterranean Sea. The proposal covers demersal fish stocks, i.e. fish that live and feed at the bottom of the seabed, and bring a significant income to the fisheries sector in the region. According to the latestÃâà...
