Qualla: Red Sea https://qualla.com/red-sea en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/g/j/red-sea-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Red Sea https://qualla.com/red-sea Red Sea: Introduction https://qualla.com/red-sea/ Photo credit Public domain. Name a color. The Greeks named this one the Erythra Thalassa, the red sea, and the name stuck through Latin, through Arabic, through every language that touched its shores. Nobody is quite sure why they chose red. One theory blames the seasonal blooms of the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum, which sometimes tints the surface rust-orange. Another points to an old Asiatic convention by which colors signaled cardinal directions, with red for south, as the Black Sea's name may signal north. Whatever its origin, the sea itself is most emphatically blue, the brilliant blue of a tropical basin walled in by desert on both sides.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/g/j/red-sea-wp/sggj-red-sea-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Red Sea: Geometry of a Young Sea https://qualla.com/red-sea/ Photo credit Marc Ryckaert, CC BY 3.0. The Red Sea is a narrow, elongated basin lying between Africa and Asia, connected to the Indian Ocean in the south through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, it splits into the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez, the latter leading to the Suez Canal and ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/g/j/red-sea-wp/sggj-red-sea-geometry-of-a-young-sea.mp3 0:06 2 full Red Sea: One of the Saltiest Waters on Earth https://qualla.com/red-sea/ Photo credit Sam J. Purkis, Hannah Shernisky, Peter K. Swart, Arash Sharifi, Amanda Oehlert, Fabio Marchese, Francesca Benzoni, Giovanni Chimienti, Gaëlle Duchâtellier, James Klaus, Gregor P. Eberli, Larry Peterson, Andrew Craig, Mattie Rodrigue, Jürgen Titschack, Graham Kolodziej, Ameer Abdulla, CC BY-SA 4.0. No significant rivers drain into the Red Sea. Its southern connection to the Indian Ocean is narrow. Evaporation runs far ahead of rainfall, which averages only a few millimeters per year along most of its coasts. The result is salinity ranging from about 36 parts per thousand in...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/g/j/red-sea-wp/sggj-red-sea-one-of-the-saltiest-waters-on-earth.mp3 0:06 3 full Red Sea: Reefs That Should Not Be This Good https://qualla.com/red-sea/ Photo credit Hagainativ, CC BY-SA 3.0. More than 1,200 fish species live in the Red Sea. About ten percent are found nowhere else. Over 200 species of soft and hard coral build the fringing reefs along both coasts, reefs 5,000 to 7,000 years old, shaped mostly from stony Acropora and Porites. Unusual offshore formatio...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/g/j/red-sea-wp/sggj-red-sea-reefs-that-should-not-be-this-good.mp3 0:06 4 full Red Sea: The Sea That Ancient Empires Fought Over https://qualla.com/red-sea/ Photo credit ניר מאור, CC BY-SA 3.0. The earliest recorded explorations of the Red Sea were Egyptian expeditions to the Land of Punt, the first around 2500 BCE, another around 1500 BCE under Queen Hatshepsut, who had her story carved into the walls of her mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari. In the 6th century BCE, Da...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/g/j/red-sea-wp/sggj-red-sea-the-sea-that-ancient-empires-fought-over.mp3 0:06 5 full Red Sea: A Modern Crisis https://qualla.com/red-sea/ Photo credit Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Suez Canal opened in November 1869, and the Red Sea became one of the busiest shipping routes in the world. Twelve to fifteen percent of global trade passes through it today. That volume has always made the sea strategically vital and environmentally vulnerable. Oil spills th...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/g/j/red-sea-wp/sggj-red-sea-a-modern-crisis.mp3 0:06 6 full Red Sea: Volcanoes in the Middle https://qualla.com/red-sea/ Photo credit Farkas Gergely, Public domain. Several small volcanic islands rise from the center of the sea. Most are dormant. In 2007, Jabal al-Tair in the Bab el-Mandeb strait erupted after 124 years of quiet. In December 2011, Sholan Island emerged in the Zubair Archipelago during a new eruption. In September 2013, Jadid...

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