A groundbreaking study published in Geophysical Research Letters has uncovered the origins of a long-standing mystery beneath ...

Study finds 3-billion-year-old crystals on Mauritius tied to hidden microcontinent “Mauritia,” supporting 19th-century legends of a lost land beneath the Indian Ocean.

Its year-round access for large vessels and proximity to key Indian Ocean shipping lanes have made it a prized strategic asset throughout history — from Portuguese, Dutch, French and British colonial ...

The Pacific Ocean is the deepest ocean in the world, plunging to depths of around 11,000 metres in the Mariana Trench. Covering more than 63 million square miles, it is also the largest and most ...

On Friday, May 23, a crew of fishermen from Mnarani village in Kilifi North disregarded an alert to stay away from the Indian Ocean and sailed into the deep sea at 6pm. It was a decision that would ...

A recent study has uncovered a troubling discovery at the bottom of the Calypso Deep, the deepest part of the Mediterranean Sea, revealing a significant accumulation of human waste. The trench, which ...

At the most recent round of Indian Ocean tuna talks, countries adopted measures to curb shark finning, expand the scope of bans that prohibit fishers from holding on to sharks caught as bycatch ...

Washington’s declared policy goal for the region, including the Indian Ocean, has been to work with its Quad partners to provide “international public goods” and to preserve a “free and open ...

The Indian Ocean is not a stepping stone to the Indo-Pacific but the mainstay of India’s maritime and strategic calculus. Without it, India’s Indo-Pacific ambitions are adrift.

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1 Guangdong Provincial Institute of Land Surveying and Planning, Guangzhou, China 2 CCCC Fourth Harbor Engineering Investigation and Design Institute, Guangzhou, China Sea surface temperature (SST) is ...

The Pacific Ocean is home to Challenger Deep, the deepest-known point on Earth’s seabed, at 35,856 feet.