West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...

By Shi En Kim for Sentient. Broadcast version by Suzanne Potter for California News Service reporting for the Sentient-Public ...

The European Meeso project, part of the EU's Horizon 2020 programme, and SFI Harvest under the Norwegian Research Council, ...

As the United States and other like-minded countries hold joint military exercises in the South China Sea, Chinese vessels have been aggressively asserting Beijing’s territorial claims in the ...

There, a contest for control of the Black Sea has seen Russia stunningly defeated. And this loss has potentially far-reaching consequences. Not only does it constrain Moscow’s ability to project ...

Since 2007, the Arctic sea ice minimum has dropped below 5 million square kilometers (1.93 million square miles) every year, except in 2009, 2013, and 2014, when extent barely crossed the 5 million ...

SINGAPORE — Undersea cables below the South China Sea have long provided vital connectivity to countries in Southeast Asia as demand for internet service has surged. To maintain the extensive ...

Researchers have shed light on the ocean’s twilight zone, revealing that this deep, dark, mysterious region is severely iron deficient. No sunlight reaches this area 200 to 1,000 meters below the sea ...

Sailors of the French Navy are slated to get new underwater vehicles for deep-sea surveillance. (Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images) BREST, France — The French Navy has ordered an autonomous ...

"The spontaneous formation of ion channels discovered in deep-sea hydrothermal vents has direct implications for the origin of life on Earth and beyond," says Nakamura. "In particular, our study ...