This week marks 20 years since one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the ...

In what has been hailed as a historic move by many, the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission (SWIOFC) has endorsed the processes for adopting regional Minimum Terms and Conditions (MTC) for ...

Diego Garcia, a remote Indian Ocean island nearly 2,000 miles from the East African coast, boasts clear-blue waters, pristine beaches — and a US-UK military base at the heart of the great-power chess ...

Maldives is known as the Land of the Sea because most of the country is covered by the Indian Ocean and consists of coral ...

It’s still fresh in our memory: 3,000 young people from five Indian Ocean Countries brought the region together. Participants from the Comoros, Djibouti, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, Seychelles, ...

I gave two papers at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2004. One was about tsunami hazards of San Francisco Bay and the other a poster on a new method of tsunami hazard ...

While New Delhi shares strategic concerns with the rest of the Quad, its Indo-Pacific approach is primarily a means to counterbalance Beijing in its immediate maritime neighborhood. India’s adoption ...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni recently warned of potential future wars in East Africa over landlocked countries' access to the Indian Ocean Museveni suggested it was wrong for any country in the ...

Last month in New Delhi, the commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Paparo, met with senior counterparts from Australia, India, and Japan. This informal group of four countries, known ...