Climate change is rapidly freshening one of Earth’s saltiest ocean regions in the Southern Indian Ocean, potentially disrupting circulation.

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

President Nicolás Maduro in early January, several sanctioned tankers fled the Venezuelan coast, including the ship that was boarded in the Indian Ocean overnight.

The sanctioned ship was the eighth vessel apprehended by the U.S. in connection with the quasi blockade of Venezuela’s oil ...

U.S. military forces boarded a crude oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after pursuing it from the Caribbean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday, accusing the vessel of breaching Washington's ...

Astove is one of the most southerly of the 72 uninhabited atolls and cays that make up the Outer Islands of the Seychelles. It is flung 1,000 kilometres – and two plane rides – southwest of the ...