Technology - MaltaJournal

Island Nations Depend on Undersea Cables More Than Ever

Undersea cables carry nearly all intercontinental data, and island nations often depend on just one or two links. The growing push for resilience.

bySakura Ito October 22, 2026

Malta has no rivers, no lakes and some of the lowest natural freshwater per person of any country on Earth.…

bySakura Ito October 22, 2026

Malta has played ancient Rome, biblical Jerusalem, Napoleonic ports and fantasy kingdoms — sometimes in the same year. Now the…

bySakura Ito October 21, 2026

The Mediterranean is warming faster than the global ocean average, and its marine heatwaves — prolonged periods of unusually high…

bySakura Ito October 21, 2026

Almost all intercontinental internet traffic travels not by satellite but through fibre-optic cables on the seabed, some no thicker than…