Chinese PLA-linked vessels map the Indian Ocean for submarine warfare. Beijing’s growing research activities in international waters are designed to expand undersea military operations, analysts say ...

The Xiang Yang Hong 03 reached the Indian Ocean on July 11 after a brief stop in Malaysia. Damien Symon, an open-source intelligence expert, mapped the ship's movement in the region in a recent ...

The naming of the Indian Ocean has sparked debate for centuries, with Indonesia and Pakistan objecting to India's prominence ...

A project to map the Indian Ocean’s seagrass, a carbon sink more powerful than terrestrial forest, will enable participating countries to protect the habitat, according to the groups initiating ...

This ISRO map shows the final resting place of the POEM-4 experiment module on April 4, 2025 after it fell to Earth and crashed into the Indian Ocean north of Australia. (Image credit: ISRO) ...

People attend a prayer at the Siron mass grave, one of the two major mass burial sites where victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were laid to rest, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on Dec. 26, 2024.

To provide additional indicators, Ms. Thibault studied the stomach contents of 304 tropical seabirds found in this part of the Indian Ocean: 125 Barau's petrels and 179 tropical shearwaters that ...

China has rapidly expanded its military footprint across the Indian Ocean, conducting exercises from the Red Sea to the Malacca Strait and deepening ties with key regional players—including some ...

INCOIS scientists map Indian Ocean floor to study currents Oceans play a critical role in both weather and climate prediction; due to vast economic benefits, it is essential to accurately forecast ...

He said 95% of India's trade, in terms of volume, is linked to the Indian Ocean region. "In such a situation, the presence of a strong Indian Navy becomes our biggest priority," he said.

Open-source, ship-tracking data showed China has recently sent three research vessels to the Indian Ocean to survey the strategic waters that border its competitor India. The movements of the ...

"The Indian Ocean is critical to China's strategic and economic interests, as well as its geopolitical rivalry with India," said Matthew Funaiole, a senior fellow at CSIS who worked on the report.