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

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

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

RAYS OF SUNSHINE. Indian Ocean destinations have upped their game, offering not just sun, sea and sand but also myriad new ...

The research team said the formation of the Indian Ocean Geoid Low is due in part to a prehistoric ocean that is long gone. The Earth looked very different millions of years ago, Ghosh said.

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.

There is a “gravity hole” in the Indian Ocean — a spot where Earth’s gravitational pull is weaker, its mass is lower than normal, and the sea level dips by over 328 feet (100 meters). This ...

“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 ...

The Indian Ocean geoid low (IOGL) is a 1.2 million-square-mile (3 million square kilometers) depression found 746 miles (1,200 kilometers) southwest of India.

An Indian experiment module fell out of space and crashed into the Indian Ocean this month, just a few months after launching into orbit, but not because of a failure.