The U.S. Seventh Fleet's mission is to provide operational control and planning for its forces in the Pacific and Indian ...

President Macron’s recent tour of the IOR underscored the complex interplay between France’s global strategic ambitions and ...

Small, uninhabited but strategically important islands are a point of contention between France and Madagascar ...

And yet, as Mauritian citizens, how many of us could correctly plot the various islands of the Indian Ocean on a map? How much do we know of their cultures and histories? To frame the question ...

These differences are shown in gravitational anomaly maps, which illustrate where gravity is stronger (red areas) or weaker (blue areas). Discovered in 1948 by Dutch geophysicist Felix Andries Vening ...

The spell was cast as soon as our ferry left the mainland, skimming over the Indian Ocean. Humpback whales breached nearby, sending jets of sea spray into the air and flipping their tails as if in ...

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 ...

Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS ... The institute has been providing access to tsunami hazard maps, evacuation and response plans. While two villages were declared ...

Human eyes have only seen a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the areas of the world that are covered by deep water. Scientists ...