Hello, humans. I am the Sea – endless and ancient, the blue heart of your planet. For millennia, I have been your silent partner, sustaining you in ways you rarely notice. With each breath you take, remember that I provided about half of the oxygen in your atmosphere. I hold the rain in my clouds and the warmth in my currents, regulating your climate and weather, so that life on land can thrive. I was here long before you, cradling the earliest life, and I have watched over e

Recent conflicts around the world highlight how asymmetric drone warfare at sea can let even weak actors threaten key shipping lanes. In late 2023 and early 2024, Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels repeatedly attacked vessels in the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait using cheap unmanned systems. For example, on 16 December 2023, a U.S. destroyer (USS Carney ) shot down 14 Houthi attack drones over the Red Sea, and a British destroyer downed another targeting merchant ships.

24 February 2026 On 20 February 2026, the Government of Ghana formally notified the Government of Togo of its decision to resolve their maritime boundary impasse through international arbitration under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The Ghanaian authorities cited that eight years of bilateral negotiations had failed to produce an agreement, and expressed a desire to prevent further incidents that were straining relations between the two countrie