Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

The forward deployment of warships marks Washington's commitment to maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific region, the Navy ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

In June, the former U.S. Coast Guard ship USCGC Mellon —one of 12 Hamilton -class high-endurance cutters—arrived in Vietnam ...

With it, Vakafua said, came blended finance tools that would fit the needs of the Pacific countries--especially in a region where, despite being on the frontlines of climate change, less than 1 ...

Open a book of maps and look for the “Indo-Pacific” region – it likely won’t be there. Yet the Indo-Pacific is now central to how many countries think about strategy and security. It describes a ...

Asia has been hit by over 20 earthquakes above a 2.5 magnitude in the last 24 hours, with four powerful ones in central and southeast Asia, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

China has regained its place as the second-biggest bilateral donor to the Pacific Islands, displacing the United States and targeting its spending to win influence, a Lowy Institute report on aid ...

But strategy also sits on a map, and where a country places its resources also tells the story of what it values. According to the Lowy Institute’s 2024 Global Diplomacy Index, China now leads the ...

A brilliant map showed just how big the Pacific Ocean is. The Ocean, which is around 32 percent of the planet’s total surface area and 46 percent of its water surface, covers 165.25 million ...

Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins. As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet.

The APR and Indian Ocean Region (IOR), major subsets of the Indo-Pacific arena, are amongst the most dynamic epicentres of economic growth. Changes in economic fortunes, like the Cold-War fallout, ...