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Weather station in the Himalayas
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Tracing the Moisture That Nourishes the World’s Highest Glacier

by Katherine Kornei 14 December 20206 September 2022

Using data from weather stations on and around Mount Everest, scientists find that the Khumbu Glacier receives most of its moisture from the Bay of Bengal.

A sandpiper standing in mud
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Human Activity Makes India’s Coastlines More Vulnerable

by M. Stonecash 9 December 202014 November 2022

Researchers propose the creation of an anthropogenic vulnerability index to help guide conservation policy decisions.

An artist’s depiction of early modern humans living amid the grasslands of the Paleo-Agulhas Plain
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A Lost Haven for Early Modern Humans

by K. Braun 14 October 202015 April 2022

Sea level changes have repeatedly reshaped the Paleo-Agulhas Plain, a now submerged region off the coast of South Africa that once teemed with plants, animals, and human hunter–gatherers.

Small red jelly hovers above the deep seafloor
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Earthquakes Reveal How Quickly the Ocean Is Warming

by Katherine Kornei 2 October 202016 March 2022

By timing sound waves set in motion by earthquakes, scientists have estimated that the Indian Ocean is warming by roughly 0.044 K per decade.

Haze covers portions of Bangladesh, eastern India, and the Bay of Bengal in this satellite image
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The Bay of Bengal and the Curious Case of the Missing Rift

by M. Talwani and M. Desa 2 October 20209 November 2021

In a classic detective story, clues from data new and old helped researchers reveal the puzzling chain of tectonic events that followed the Early Cretaceous split between India and Antarctica.

Photograph of storm cloud over Indian Ocean
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Mysterious Engine of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation

by C. Zhang 6 July 20208 March 2022

Understanding the fundamental physics of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation, a phenomenon that occurs over the Indian and Pacific Oceans, remains a challenge in tropical atmospheric research.

The M/V Fugro Equator searches the seafloor for MH370
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Search for MH370 Revealed Ocean Crust Waves

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 8 June 202029 September 2021

Efforts to recover the missing airplane produced high-resolution bathymetry of the southern Indian Ocean that raises new ideas about how ocean crust forms.

Rift in the seafloor
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A Plate Boundary Emerges Between India and Australia

by Katherine Kornei 18 May 202016 March 2022

Bathymetric and seismic data point to a new plate boundary in a fracture-riddled zone beneath the northern Indian Ocean.

Graph showing temperatures in four different depth layers over time
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CAT Pictures of Internal Solitary Waves in Indonesian Strait

by J. Sprintall 7 October 201927 January 2023

Huge and rapid subsurface temperature changes associated with propagating internal solitary waves were observed from a moored coastal acoustic tomography (CAT) system in Lombok Strait in Indonesia.

Homes built at sea level on Palm Jumeirah island, Dubai
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Meteotsunami Spotted for the First Time in the Persian Gulf

by Katherine Kornei 31 July 201917 May 2022

The Persian Gulf, a region with high-end resorts and oil-related infrastructure dotting its shorelines, was hit in 2017 by weather-induced waves that rolled roughly a kilometer inland.

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