"The Indian Ocean has a variety of complex and interesting deep-sea ecosystems across basins, trenches, seamounts and ridges." The review looked at major seafloor features, alongside broader ...

I have spent much of my life studying predatory fishes in East Africa’s coastal waters, but never have I been more concerned ...

Life on Aldabra atoll, on the western fringe of the Indian Ocean, moves at the pace of its oldest inhabitants. I’ve already dodged a couple of giant tortoises along the white sand path on my ...

Some, including conservationist Kay Van Damme, have called it the Galápagos of the Indian Ocean and along with other experts, he is warning that millions of years of evolution on Socotra could be ...

Situated in the Indian Ocean between Mauritius and Seychelles, more than 200 miles from land, the Saya de Malha Bank extends over an area the size of Switzerland and is one of the world’s ...

Dehradun: Ocean acidification is accelerating at an alarming rate, with ocean surface pH declining globally at –0.017 ± 0.001 pH units per decade from 1985 to 2023, according to the World ...

New Delhi: The Indian Ocean has been warming rapidly over the past few decades, with a sea surface temperature estimate recording 0.15°C increase per decade between 1951 and 2015, the Ministry of ...