But more worrisome for international observers is the idea that the underwater station could serve as an anchor for China's other big deep-sea initiative, the so-called Underwater Great Wall of China.

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If this underwater wall could talk, it might reveal that it once helped Stone Age Europeans hunt reindeer. Submerged about 20 meters below the surface of the Baltic Sea off the coast of Germany, ...

Throwing up a physical barrier between a melting ice sheet in Antarctica and the warming oceans may actually slow sea-level rise--but it's still no replacement for other climate-change mitigation ...

The “Underwater Great Wall” is the construction of a network of ship and subsurface sensors that could significantly erode the undersea warfare advantage held by US and Russian submarines and ...

The Wall That Would Save Venice From Drowning Is Underwater When floods arrived this month, a project to block out the sea wasn’t ready, slowed by corruption and bureaucracy By Margherita Stancati ...

The submerged museum holds over 300 life-size casts including The Rubicon—35 figures walking toward an underwater wall, seemingly sleepwalking through the demise of the natural world and climate ...

According to his data, underwater walls could extend the lifespan of many glaciers by 10 times. And unlike many of these other last-resort options, there might not be any serious side effects to ...