Though the Arctic is a "seemingly distant region", its developments have a great impact on Singapore, both environmentally and economically, said Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday.
Vietnamese and Indian Coast Guards held their first search and rescue drill off the coast of southern Ba Ria - Vung Tau province, Vietnam News Agency reported Monday.
A female pilot trainee of deep-sea manned submersible operated Jiaolong on Thursday for the first time in the southwestern Indian Ocean.
The AirAsia plane with 162 people on board may has fallen into the bottom of the sea, 24 hours after the jetliner vanished from radar en route from Indonesia to Singapore, said Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency chief here Monday.
China and three Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries on Wednesday agreed to build a land-sea express passage linking a Greek port and the landlocked Hungary to speed up transportation between China and Europe.
A new research by New Zealand scientists out Tuesday shows that global warming could cause sea levels to rise by "tens of meters" in coming centuries if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase.
Australian scientists have made the alarming discovery that sea levels have risen more in the past century than at any other comparable period in the past 6,000 years.
The warming oceans around Antarctica could cause an abrupt rise in global sea levels, according to a study by New Zealand and Australian scientists.
Indonesian President-elect Joko Widodo said on Tuesday that Indonesia is expected to see the operation of the so-called sea toll road within next four to five years, to link islands across the country.
More than 200 billion Australian dollars (181 billion U.S. dollars) of Australian infrastructure is under threat by sea-level rises over the next century, a new report released on Wednesday has found.
Sea levels will continue to rise in the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of the Philippines and northeastern Australia as humans continue to alter the climate, a new study on Wednesday revealed.
The Australian and Sri Lankan governments have moved swiftly to return a group of 41 Sri Lankan nationals who attempted to arrive illegally in Australia by boat, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison announced on Monday.
New Zealand scientists said Thursday they had made a breakthrough in understanding how large waves were breaking up Antarctic sea ice, which could change understanding of how climate change is affecting the two global ice caps.
More than 40 hours have passed since the missing Malaysian plane carrying 239 people, including more than 150 Chinese, lost contact with air traffic controllers.
Eleven people were rescued and five remain missing after a container vessel sank off the coast of east China's Jiangsu Province, rescuers said Friday.
First the latest on the oil pipeline blasts in the port city of Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province.
China's manned submersible Jiaolong, aboard its support ship Xiangyanghong-9, left a port in Jiangyin, east China's Jiangsu Province on Monday, for its first voyage of experimental application.
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