ver 20 years ago, president Megawati Soekarnoputri banned the export of sea sand from the archipelagic nation in response to the widespread environmental and economic damage it was causing.

Over 20 years ago, then Indonesian president Megawati Soekarnoputri banned the export of sea sand from her archipelago nation ...

Rain battered Gwadar for almost 30 consecutive hours last February. Torrents washed out roads, bridges, and lines of ...

Many sea creatures depend on sound, and have evolved complex systems of communication that they use for connection, reproduction, territorial assertion and survival. But over the last few decades ...

Within three weeks, the alliance had put a coordinated group of warships to sea specifically to deter such suspected attacks. Announcing the new surveillance and deterrence mission, dubbed Baltic ...

Here’s how it works. Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen giant sea bug after studying samples purchased from fishers in Vietnam. Bathynomus vaderi belongs to the genus Bathynomus ...

A city looked at the sea as a blessing. It’s now sinking into it - The ocean has now become an existential threat ...

Giant isopods of the genus Bathynomus, which can reach more than 30 cm in length, are known as bọ biển or "sea bugs" in Vietnam. For the first time, one such species was described from ...

A spate of alleged underwater incidents has allied leaders on alert. LONDON -- A spate of alleged sabotage operations against undersea cables in the Baltic Sea has raised the prospect of a ...

“I just love the sea and being in the water,” she says after resurfacing. Ohno is an ama diver, or a “sea woman” as they are known in Japan. For centuries, these traditional fisherwomen ...

The Philippines and China agreed Thursday to an indefinite implementation of an arrangement for the resupply of daily necessities and rotation missions by Manila at Ayungin Shoal in the West ...

So far, this new species has only been found near the Spratly Islands in Vietnam, but further research will probably confirm its presence in other parts of the South China Sea. Giant isopods like ...