The Indian navy considers the ocean as an area of vital importance and the country itself as a security provider for its neighbors. The Xiang Yang Hong 03 reached the Indian Ocean on July 11 after ...

Chinese PLA-linked vessels map the Indian Ocean for submarine warfare. Beijing’s growing research activities in international waters are designed to expand undersea military operations, analysts say ...

China has long been accused of using its research vessels for reconnaissance mission. Despite India's concern, China ...

In the Indian Ocean, there is a place where the laws of gravity seem to falter—a gigantic depression in the Earth’s geoid where the gravitational force is weaker than normal, causing the sea level to ...

The Indian Ocean geoid low (IOGL) is a 1.2 million-square-mile ... the low's gravity is so weak that a layer of its water has been snatched away — making the sea level over the hole 348 feet ...

The sea-level rise in the North Indian Ocean (NIO) occurred at a rate of 1.06-1.75mm per year from 1874 to 2004 and has increased by more than 3mm per year in the 25 years.

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NOAA's interactive map shows how the sea will encroach upon Georgia along the coast if sea levels rise by 6 feet. NOAA. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC ...

The sea level dips by over 328 feet (100 meters) in a "gravity hole" first discovered in 1948. Today, scientists hypothesize that the hole in the Indian Ocean was shaped by plumes of magma coming ...

A vast expanse of the Indian Ocean is a staggering 100 meters lower than the global average sea level because of a major dip in Earth’s gravity. Scientists now think they know the cause ...

The Xiang Yang Hong 03 reached the Indian Ocean on July 11 after a brief stop in Malaysia. Damien Symon, an open-source intelligence expert, mapped the ship's movement in the region in a recent ...

The Indian Ocean geoid low (IOGL) is a 1.2 million-square-mile ... the low's gravity is so weak that a layer of its water has been snatched away — making the sea level over the hole 348 feet ...