"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 ...

Coral bleaching hits Indian Ocean reefs 17 photos. ... Reefs are one of the world's most important ecosystems, supporting more species than any other marine environment, ...

Ten countries in the western Indian Ocean are banding together to create a network of marine conservation areas under the banner of the Great Blue Wall. The idea is to push through conservation ...

The study, published in Nature Communications, reveals that coral reefs situated more than 90m below the surface of the Indian Ocean have experienced severe damage, affecting up to 80 per cent of ...

Phytoplankton populations in the Indian Ocean fell 30 percent over the last 16 years largely due to global warming, new research suggests. ... may undermine the region’s ecosystem, ...

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 ...

Can dragonflies migrate thousands of miles across the Indian Ocean, ... Oct. 21, 2022 — Researchers have found evidence of a previously undescribed ecosystem -- 'The Trapping Zone' ...

The availability of 40 percent of the world’s offshore petroleum, mineral deposits, and extremely diverse marine ecosystem, further makes the Indian Ocean region (IOR) ...

Unregulated fishing on the high seas of the Indian Ocean is putting marine life and seafood supplies at risk, new research shows. A report from WWF and Trygg Mat Tracking (TMT) shows for the first ...