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A HEPCA survey led by marine biologist Mahmoud Hanafy found coral bleaching across Egypt's Red Sea following summer heat waves in 2023 and 2024. Less than 10 percent of surveyed colonies were affected in northern reef areas, but bleaching struck roughly half the corals further south.
A brief recap revisits the 2021 incident in which the container ship Ever Given ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal for several days, halting a major global shipping route. The retrospective summarizes the timeline of the grounding and subsequent refloating without providing new details beyond a condensed overview.
Iran-backed Houthi fighters have reportedly captured territory along Yemen's Red Sea coast, including Perim island, which sits in the narrow Bab al-Mandab Strait linking the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea and Suez Canal. Directly across the water lies Djibouti, a small nation hosting military bases from the US, China, France, Japan and Italy due to the strait's importance to global shipping.