• Mr Eizenstat was giving testimony to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing investigating the Caspian Sea area and US policy towards it.

    BBC: Karabakh: Are Things Moving?

  • The Black Sea area of Russia has been particularly hard hit, with at least 58 deaths over the course of the weekend.

    BBC: Battered Prague hopes for respite

  • But because the ship was likely to eventually make its way to the Red Sea area, a number of weapons systems are thought to have been stored on the ship.

    FORBES: Venezuela Frees U.S. Ship And Crew After Smuggling Investigation

  • Oceanlinx joins three other companies - Ocean Power Technologies Limited, Fred Olsen Limited and WestWave - each of which will be granted a lease of a sea area of 2 sq km.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Cornwall | New partner in wave power scheme

  • The Arctic sea ice area is expected to continue decreasing until September.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION

  • Sea Watch said the work would involve an area of sea between Caithness and Orkney where offshore marine renewable energy is to be installed next year.

    BBC: Survey to seek out killer whales off Caithness coast

  • The turbines would cover an area of sea similar in size to the Isle of Wight.

    BBC: Consultation starts on wind farm off Devon coast

  • Some 417 turbines are planned for the development, which would cover an area at sea similar in size to the Isle of Wight.

    BBC: Devon wind farm plans reviewed after consultation

  • And in February 2009 it was discovered that scientists had previously been underestimating the re-growth of Arctic sea ice by an area larger than the state of California (twice as large as New Zealand).

    FORBES: Hot Sensations Vs. Cold Facts

  • With the swagger of a superstar, Frankel emerged from the saddling area to a sea of pink and green (his owner, Khalid Abdullah's racing colors).

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Breaker zone: area in the sea where the waves break.

    UNESCO: L O S S A R Y

  • She chaired the latest meeting of a task force set up to regenerate the area after Irish Sea Ferry operator Stena Line moved to nearby Cairnryan.

    BBC: Stranraer task force gets progress report

  • Located on the Arabian Sea in the Jebel Sifah area, the 55 rooms and suites have views of the marina, and the As Sammak beach restaurant serves fresh seafood.

    BBC: Openings: Quito, West Virginia, Agra, Oman

  • Madocks used the "great embankment" to reclaim hundreds of acres of land from the sea and, in turn, brought prosperity to the area, linking the slate quarries with the sea.

    BBC: Porthmadog marks the 200th anniversary of its 'Cob'

  • The intelligence official, who could also not be named for security reasons, said the launches came as no surprise because North Korea had issued a warning to mariners to avoid an area in the Sea of Japan at certain times between June 24 and July 9 because of a "military firing exercise, " according to a U.S. military communication about the warning provided to CNN.

    CNN: Report: North Korea test fires four missiles

  • The two sides are to set up a joint fishing area in the West Sea to avoid accidental armed conflict.

    CNN: Korea accord's eight points

  • This brings humpbacks, minkes and king-of-the-sea blue whales steaming through the area, as well as chatty white belugas, which otherwise are seen only in the Arctic.

    BBC: A coastal Qu��bec road trip

  • Rescue teams focused on an area of the Irish Sea around Blackpool's south pier and sea wall and earlier searched under the piers.

    BBC: Paul Morris

  • The area is near the sea, skiing in the mountains, has medieval villages and is less than an hour from the airport in Pisa.

    BBC: Living in: wine regions

  • At the time the animal died the North Sea did not exist and the area was low-lying grassland connecting the British Isles to the continent.

    BBC: Tim Batty, curator of the Dinosaur Museum, with the tusks

  • Seagrass bed: area of the offshore sea-bottom colonized by seagrasses.

    UNESCO: L O S S A R Y

  • As always happens when the former superpowers carry out naval exercises, the "other side" - the United States - did have submarines in the area of the Barents Sea where the exercise was taking place.

    BBC: Analysis: Kursk cover-up

  • Israel has an important stake not only in those programs, but in certain U.S. programs, like the one that would create a sea-based, wide-area defense system that would allow the United States, by stationing a single naval cruiser in the Eastern Mediterranean in a crisis, to add a valuable layer to Israel's missile defenses.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: About as Radical as The Reaganites

  • During the Jurassic period, 165 million years ago, the area was a warm shallow sea.

    BBC: Children discover 'rare' fossils at Cotswold Water Park

  • The JW Marriott on Copacabana beach is one of the newer, more modern and sophisticated hotels among a sea of aging grand dames in the area.

    BBC: Business trip: Rio de Janeiro

  • Russia's natural resources minister Jurij Trutnev, meanwhile, has been making optimistic noises in recent weeks about the likelihood of a resolution of a long-standing border dispute between the two nations over a 155, 000 square kilometres "grey area" in the Barents Sea.

    BBC: Arctic landscape

  • Wealthy landowners flocked to the area, building plantations to grow Sea Island cotton, among other goods.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Compared to September conditions in the 1980s and 1990s, this represents a 45 percent reduction in the area of the Arctic covered by sea ice.

    FORBES: On Romney's 'Rising Oceans', Time To Get A Bigger Boat

  • The risk of loss of lives and economic disaster in the southern Mediterranean is high due to strong population density along its coasts: around 150 million people concentrated in 46, 000 kms of coastline, 110 million of them living in cities bordering the sea and some 200 million tourists visiting the area every year.

    UNESCO: Indigenous Peoples

  • However, although the sea ice is shrinking -- covering less total area as well as becoming thinner -- the Arctic is still a world ruled by ice, a lesson well learned when the Polar Pioneer encountered heavy pack ice between Svalbard and the eastern coast of Greenland, forcing the captain to divert the boat and drop speed to just a few knots.

    BBC: Life in the fragile, frozen Arctic

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