Mr Eizenstat was giving testimony to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing investigating the Caspian Sea area and US policy towards it.
The Black Sea area of Russia has been particularly hard hit, with at least 58 deaths over the course of the weekend.
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.
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China apparently would like to establish secure "bastions" in the South China Sea to ensure the survivability of its strategic second-strike force regardless of the fact that this sea area is a recognized international waterway.
North Korea doesn't claim either of Yeonpyeong or Baengnyeong islands, which are visible from the North Korean coast, but it does claim the sea area around both and wants the maritime border moved several miles south of the border drawn up by the United Nations in 1953 when the Korean War reached an armistice.
The Arctic sea ice area is expected to continue decreasing until September.
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.
The turbines would cover an area of sea similar in size to the Isle of Wight.
Some 417 turbines are planned for the development, which would cover an area at sea similar in size to the Isle of Wight.
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).
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).
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.
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.
The streets around the mosque have been torn up by Israeli tanks, and water gushing from broken pipes has turned the area into a sea of mud.
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.
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.
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.
The two sides are to set up a joint fishing area in the West Sea to avoid accidental armed conflict.
Similarly, the latest North-South talks were heralded by a short but deadly exchange of fire in a disputed area of the Yellow Sea.
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.
Rescue teams focused on an area of the Irish Sea around Blackpool's south pier and sea wall and earlier searched under the piers.
The area is near the sea, skiing in the mountains, has medieval villages and is less than an hour from the airport in Pisa.
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.
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Seagrass bed: area of the offshore sea-bottom colonized by seagrasses.
But recently the inland waterways, docks and fresh-water intakes of North America have been overrun by zebra and quagga mussels—species that originate from the area around the Black Sea.
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.
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.
During the Jurassic period, 165 million years ago, the area was a warm shallow sea.
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