The coils of black hose, drum skimmers designed to collect oil from the ocean's surface, and orangey-red containment booms ...

A recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters has uncovered new insights into one of Earth’s most puzzling ...

Sri Lanka is one of the world’s most enigmatic destinations. Size-wise, it’s slightly smaller than Scotland, meaning you can ...

From the ancient coelacanth to the elusive Omura’s whale, here are the 10 of the rarest animals found in the Indian Ocean.

A massive undersea earthquake near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami warnings across the Pacific, affecting ...

Some of the world’s smartest animals live below the surface, and in the Indian Ocean, a particular kind of whale […] ...

Nuclear talks between Iran and European countries are due to begin, but a threat remains of renewed Israeli and US attacks on ...

“But the geoid low in the Indian Ocean is one of the most profound gravitational anomalies on our planet.” The gravity hole likely took its current shape about 20 million years ago and will ...

As an archive, the Indian Ocean provides a new way of looking at world history, that has previously been dominated by European accounts. The age of European empires is only one tiny sliver of time ...

The Indian Ocean covers at least one fifth of the world’s total ocean area and is bounded by Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (known as the western Indian Ocean), India’s coastal waters (the ...

The Indian Ocean Conference in Bangladesh hosted representatives from 25 Indian Ocean nations. They discussed regional economic growth, cooperation, and security in the area.

In 2009, emblazoned in large red letters on the cover of Foreign Affairs were the words “Rivalry in the Indian Ocean.” In this featured article, Robert D. Kaplan announced to ...