Millions of years ago much of Mississippi was underwater and dugongs, sometimes called sea cows, roamed the warm coastal waters.

Have you heard of the Emerald Isle of India? It is home to more than 500 islands, an active volcano, and rare coral reefs.

Kanyakumari is a coastal town in the state of Tamil Nadu, which sits at India’s southernmost tip. During British Rule, Kanyakumari had a different name; can you guess what it was? Let’s uncover!

After capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and repeatedly threatening to take control of Greenland, US President Donald Trump has now set his sights on a new target: the Chagos Archipelago in ...

TOI Correspondent from Washington: Flames from US President Donald Trump’s inflammatory approach to Europe over Greenland is now spreading to the Indian Ocean. In a sudden pivot on Monday, the MAGA ...

The Andaman coast was one of very few places in the world with a viable population but then dead dugongs began washing up. Now half have gone A solitary figure stands on the shore of Thailand’s Tang ...

Almost 12 years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished over the Indian Ocean with 239 people on board, the search for the Boeing 777's wreckage was scheduled to resume Tuesday in the Indian Ocean ...

Diane Le Gouvello does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ocean covers more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Considering how vast it is, scientists know relatively little about ...

Declared functionally extinct in China just three years ago, the dugong — a marine mammal famously associated with mermaid legends — has been sighted again in the nearshore waters of the South China ...

Andrew King receives funding from the Australian Research Council (Future Fellowship and Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather) and the National Environmental Science Program. As spring in ...