Why in news?

• The US Navy has created a new task force with allied countries to patrol the Red Sea amid the Yemen War.
• Red Sea is the world’s northernmost tropical sea between Asia and Africa- connecting the Gulf of Suez and Gulf of Aqaba in the North with the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb in South.
• Part of the Great Rift Valley, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti lies on its Western Shore, and Yemen and Saudi Arabia lies on the Eastern Shore.
• Due to high heat and lack of precipitation, it has high salinity.
• It is part of Global 200 ecoregions from World Wildlife Fund (WWF).