Yemen's Houthis and Sudan's civil war have become added risk factors to regional shipping following U.S. strikes on Iran's energy grid.

Weeks after a Houthi rebel missile attacked the Rubymar in the globally important Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the ship dumped fuel into the sea and could still pour environmentally damaging fertilizer into the waters. It presents an ongoing risk for other ships ...

Scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have provided conclusive evidence that the Red Sea completely dried out about 6.2 million years ago, before being suddenly refilled by a catastrophic flood from the Indian Ocean.

ISMAILIA, EGYPT - JANUARY 10: A ship transits the Suez Canal towards the Red Sea on January 10, 2024 in Ismailia, Egypt. In the wake of Israel's war on Gaza after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Houthi rebels in Yemen pledged disruption on all ships ...

The Red Sea is in crisis. At the center of the storm are Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who have unleashed a wave of attacks on ships traversing one of the world’s most pivotal maritime straits, putatively in support of Hamas’s war against Israel. The Houthi ...

The U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Laboon (DDG 58) approaches the Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler USNS Kanawha (T-AO 196) for a replenishment-at-sea while operating in support of Operation Prosperity Guardian ...

Attacks by Iran-backed militants in the Red Sea have effectively closed one of the world’s main trade routes to most container ships — vessels that carry everything from car parts to Crocs from one corner of the globe to another. The Houthi militants ...