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

The ground may feel steady underfoot, but the planet is always in motion. While satellites and sensors have mapped the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order effectively permitting American companies to engage in deep-sea mining ...

INS Sandhayak is the lead ship of the Sandhayak-class survey vessels, and was commissioned in February 2024. Fully ...

The Indian Ocean is warming faster than any of the other oceans, holding more than 70% of all the heat absorbed by the upper ocean since 2003. Indian Ocean islands ...

“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 ...

Malaysia says the latest hunt for missing flight MH370 has been suspended after less than 6 weeks, as "it's not the season" to scour the Indian Ocean. Malaysian cabinet ministers agreed to a "no ...

The Indian Ocean theater seems less of a focus, at least in the public’s eye. For India, however, the threat seems very real. Chinese submarines have paid port calls in Pakistan and Sri Lanka in ...

Almost none of the Indian Ocean warming came from above, though. Instead, it was warm Pacific water flowing through Indonesia—a transfer that strengthened between 2003 and 2012.

The Indian Ocean is the world’s third-largest body of water and has become a growing area of competition between China and India. The two regional powers’ moves to exert influence in the ocean ...

A security specialist in the Western Indian Ocean sees how countries work together to counter the threat of a massive oil ...