Former capitals, lovingly built, objects of pride, coveted and fought over – for their strategic importance, wealth or ...

Imagine waking up one morning to discover that a tiny reef in the middle of the ocean has suddenly become part of a nation’s ...

For years, Jack Auty studied how inflammation in the human body drives diseases, ranging from stroke to sepsis to Alzheimer’s ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two ...

Despite being almost entirely underwater, Zealandia meets all the geological criteria to be classified as a continent.

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck far off southwest Australia on Wednesday, but no tsunami warning was issued.

The epicenter was in the Indian Ocean 2,069 kilometers (1,283 miles) southwest of Albany on the southwest tip of Western Australia state at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), the U.S. Geological ...

Giant tortoises once flourished in vast numbers across a large swath of islands dimpling the western Indian Ocean until seafarers ... first atoll to gain UNESCO World Heritage protection status.

The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Center said there was no tsunami alert for Australia or Antarctica The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in ...

Time Magazine releases list of world's 100 most influential people, no Indian in the list, Bangladesh's Yunus finds place in list due to... America’s prestigious Time magazine has released the ...

India clinched a silver medal in the men’s recurve team event at the Archery World Cup Stage 1 after the ... 1-1 with identical scores of 54. The Indian trio had two 10s and two 9s, but faltered ...

But as the milky displays occur only rarely, and typically in remote regions of the Indian Ocean, scientists have struggled to get the biological information to confirm this. “It is really hard ...