Under the bright blue water of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea, the view is stunning. Expansive coral reefs teeming with life; colorful fish and invertebrates. But something crucial has gone ...

The Gulf of Aqaba has an average depth of 900 meters and a maximum depth of 1,850 meters. The region is a long strip of the Red Sea that separates Egypt's Sinai Peninsula from Saudi Arabia.

Eilat, Israel — Under the bright blue water of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea, the view is stunning. Expansive coral reefs teeming with life; colorful fish and invertebrates.

Coral reefs in the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba can resist rising water temperatures, suggests new research. If they survive local pollution, these corals may one day be used to re-seed parts of the ...

Bleached corals near Eilat in the Gulf of Aqaba, after a blistering heatwave in the northern-hemisphere summer of 2024. Image courtesy of Assaf Zvuloni / Israel Nature and Parks Authority.

As a child, Yossi Shveka used to put messages of peace in a bottle and float them across the shimmering blue waters of the Gulf of Aqaba to the Jordanian residents of Aqaba–only a few miles away ...

The Gulf of Aqaba (Khalij al-‘Aqabah in Arabic) in Saudi Arabia is around 200 km long, 14–26 km wide and around 1,700 m deep. It is located between the Sinai Peninsula and the north-westernmost part ...

Under the bright blue water of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea, the view is stunning. Expansive coral reefs teeming with life; colorful fish and invertebrates. But something crucial has gone ...