The most reliable way to connect countries through the internet is via submarine optical fiber cables. These cables stretch thousands of kilometres beneath the sea, carrying the digital world across ...

Aiming to cut telecommunication costs, Indian Ocean nations are moving ahead on a fiber-optic cable project to connect countries in the region to each other and to intercontinental networks. The ...

Laced across the cold depths of the world's oceans is a network of multimillion-dollar cables, which have become the vital connections of our online lives. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Monitoring changes in water temperature and pressure at the seafloor can improve understanding of ocean circulation, climate, and natural hazards such as tsunamis. In recent years, scientists have ...

Conflicts in Europe and the Middle East risk disrupting the undersea network of cables that forms the backbone of global communications. Much of West and Central Africa was left without internet ...