The first-known direct observations of a seafloor spreading event at a mid-ocean ridge in the Indian Ocean are presented in ...

Scientists observed a mid-ocean ridge widen in real time, recording several metres of sea-floor motion and huge lava outflows ...

Indian Ocean Dipole is a climate pattern defined by the temperature difference between the western and eastern parts of the ...

The researchers saw many strange animals — many believed to be new to science — living off the whale carcasses.

Scientists have discovered that, far in the future, our Sun will go through a massive transformation! Right now, it's a stable star in the middle of its life, but billions of years from now, it will ...

All sea turtle species are threatened worldwide. They migrate long distances in the oceans—often thousands of kilometers—and so fall under multiple countries' laws and conservation targets. They also ...

Hundreds of whale fossils, including those from extinct species new to science, range in age from recent to five million years old and are also home to undescribed deep-sea creatures.

The 21st century is increasingly b eing described as the Indian Ocean Century. As the global economic centre of gravity ...

The ocean floor is covered with dead whales–but it is everything but a biohazard. When a whale dies, its body sinks to the ocean floor in a process called whale fall. The carcass then becomes its own ...

PM Narendra Modi addressed the Seychelles National Assembly, highlighting the two nations' shared vision for Indian Ocean ...

Victoria (Seychelles), Jun 28 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said India envisions an Indian Ocean characterised ...

“The Indian Ocean is warming at a higher rate than the other oceans around the world,” revealed Swapna Panickal, a meteorological scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, based on ...