During the Battles of the Java Sea, several Royal Navy warships were sunk. HMS Exeter capsized during the Second Battle of the Java Sea. A total of 652 personnel were captured as prisoners of war.

Sailors aboard the Royal Navy flagship wrote letters home to their families “saying what might happen” during a crucial leg of their global mission.

SEOUL — Six Americans were detained Friday in South Korea for trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, miniature Bibles, $1 bills and USB sticks toward North Korea by sea, police said.

‘The Caspian Sea is shrinking. It is visible with the naked eye’ Kazakh ecologists and environmental activists worry that the Caspian Sea’s levels are set to decline further.

Scientists Discover First Known Sea Spider Species That ‘Eat’ Methane With the Help of Bacteria The research offers new insights on interactions between creatures on the mysterious seafloor ...

Around 1 p.m., flights scheduled to arrive at Sea-Tac were circling or being diverted to other airports, according to data from the flight-tracking company Flightradar24.

Foreign investors are invited for Indonesia's plan to build a $80 billion seawall hundreds of kilometres long to prevent floods along the north coast of its most populous island Java, President ...

Sea cucumbers, long known for cleaning the ocean floor, may also harbor a powerful cancer-fighting secret. Scientists discovered a unique sugar in these marine creatures that can block Sulf-2, an ...

An elusive deep-sea squid species was caught on camera for the first time ever in a major breakthrough. National Geographic, on June 10, revealed the "history-making sighting" of a massive, three ...

SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida's Space Coast, lands booster on ship at sea SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites from Florida, lands rocket on ship at sea ...

The Harvard Medical School renamed its diversity office and announced changes to several major DEI programs on Wednesday in the latest rollback of diversity infrastructure at Harvard.