Han’s team estimates that the area covered by salty seawater in this Southern Indian Ocean region has shrunk by about 30% over the past 60 years. They describe it as the fastest freshening seen ...

The U.K. is blocking U.S. use of two key bases for an attack on Iran, according to a report by The Times. Both Diego Garcia, ...

In the Biden administration’s waning months, U.S. officials supported, indeed urged, Britain to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Smack in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the Chagos Archipelago ...

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Donald Trump tied Diego Garcia to potential military escalation with Iran, invoking ongoing talks over Tehran’s nuclear programme.

Budget and not speeches and doctrine give the clearest statement of a country’s strategic priorities. By that measure, capex allocation for the Indian Navy continues to be telling on India’s maritime ...

Four Chagossians return to the Chagos Islands, challenging the UK-Mauritius sovereignty transfer and highlighting ongoing ...

International Fleet Review 2026 began in Visakhapatnam with President Droupadi Murmu reviewing Indian and foreign naval assets. INS Vikrant leads a 70-ship formation alongside 19 foreign warships in a ...

In A Nutshell Antarctica, not the Indian Ocean, hosts Earth’s strongest nonhydrostatic geoid depression when scientists ...

U.S. military forces boarded another sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Se ...

The US military has boarded a second oil tanker in the Indian Ocean, after tracking it from the Caribbean Sea where it was suspected of helping Venezuela avoid US sanctions. The boarding of the ...

At least 40 people have been killed and more than 16,000 others displaced after Cyclone Gezani slammed into Madagascar’s second-largest city earlier this week, as Mozambique braced for the storm’s ...