Indian Ocean

The Maldivian foreign ministry has denied allegations that China's donation of a million bottles of water was for the personal use of President Mohamed Muizzu.

Maldives will receive military assistance from Beijing as part of a defense pact as the island nation pivots away from New Delhi.

The Indian navy recently inaugurated a new base, INS Jatayu, on Minicoy island to boost its presence in the Indian Ocean.

U.S. forces have taken part in 21 exercises and public operations in the Indo-Pacific region since early January.

China's spy ship Xiang Yang Hong 3, earlier denied docking rights by Sri Lanka, moored at the Maldivian port of Malé on Thursday.

China's research vessels study ocean floor topography to help its submarine fleet navigate the far seas.

The Maldives president has ordered India to withdraw its troops by mid-March.

Over 80 percent of the dual-use research vessels have ties to China's military, a new report says.

India and Maldives are currently locked in a diplomatic controversy as President Mohamed Muizzu visits Beijing.

Populations of a beloved fish have declined, in particular in the Indian Ocean, because of overfishing.

Indian Navy is set to boost its presence in the region as part of anti-piracy measures, the navy chief said

Chinese state media accused Sri Lanka of succumbing to pressure from India by denying the ship's docking rights.

China's fishing fleet, among those guilty of forced labor, are denuding the world's oceans, experts warn.

The maritime trade that goes through the South China Sea each day is vital to India's economy.

Moscow appears to be eyeing opportunities in the Indo-Pacific as it is shut out of Europe and North America.

China is set to win a "friend" in the Maldives' new President-elect Mohamed Muizzu.

By studying the chemical makeup of the shells of barnacles attached to debris from the aircraft, scientists may be able to track where the plane went down.

An astronaut on the ISS photographed the rippling clouds over an archipelago near Antarctica.

An ambitious international reintroduction project hopes to release 500 zebra sharks in an area where they have all but disappeared.

New Netflix documentary series "MH370: The Plane That Disappeared" delves into three theories surrounding the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.

The core booster from China's Long March 5B rocket, delivering the final piece of the Tiangong space station, will crash-land in an uncontrolled reentry.

The video shows a view from the International Space Station as it traveled around 270 miles above the Indian Ocean toward the Coral Sea east of Australia.

U.S. Space Command confirmed the Long March 5B rocket re-entered the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.

Listening devices set up to check unapproved nuclear testing picked up whale songs in the Indian Ocean.

"My turn to die has not yet come, thank God. I'm well. I'm just cold," said General Serge Gellé, the country's police minister.

The cargo ship was reportedly hit by an "unknown weapon" and a fire broke out on its deck, prompting fears that "that this was a deliberate attack."

"We don't know how many whales are in this group, but we suspect it's a lot by the enormous number of calls we hear," study author Tracey Rogers said.

"The ship has dealt a death blow to our lives. We can't go into the sea, which means we can't make a living," Joshua Anthony, head of a region fishing union.

The victims, male hikers in their twenties, had been walking near the Piton de la Fournaise volcano, French media reported.

Scientists compared centuries-worth of data to see how the Indian Ocean Dipole has changed over the last millennia. Their results suggest extreme events are becoming more frequent and more intense.