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Managing maritime security is a challenging endeavour. Forms of maritime crime include piracy, drug and arms smuggling.
Further analysis of the debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 point to a possible new search area in the Indian Ocean.
Indian Ocean humpback dolphins, which live close to the shore, need protection. The total population is estimated to be just 10,000, with fewer than 1,000 of them off the coast of South Africa.
Since 1999, Australia has swung between drought and deluge with surprising speed, because El Niño has fallen into sync with similar patterns in the Indian and Southern Oceans.
Africa has some wonderful beaches. A serious traveller should visit at least one of them once in a lifetime.
Students have won an important victory. But to understand the complex nature of oppression and how to respond to it will require many struggles over a longer period of time.
We thought the big El Niño might not bring drought. And then the climate turned dry. And hot.
Corals are experiencing only the third global bleaching event in recorded history, caused by warming seas. But worse is yet to come.
Why are African baobab trees found in India? Genetic research is starting to shed light on the answer.
Why are the UK’s left-over possessions in the Indian Ocean still the subject of furious legal dispute?
This year has been anything but tranquil in the paradise nation of the Maldives – is it time to boycott?
Western Australia’s marine environment is unique. Two world heritage areas, the largest fringing coral reef in Australia, and more than a thousand kilometres of underwater forests, supporting incredible…
A satellite-tracking study of green turtles in the Indian Ocean has rewritten the record books for long-distance marine animal migration, showing that they can travel some 4000 kilometres without stopping…
Not long after the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was declared missing, the world’s attention was focused on a remote, poorly known area of the Eastern Indian Ocean as the possible location of the lost…
Over the past few months, a lot of attention has been paid to the potentially strong El Niño event brewing in the Pacific Ocean. But there is also the potential for an emerging climate phenomenon in the…
Frustratingly, the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has turned up many floating objects, but none of them are from the plane. That’s largely because the latest search area is likely to…
It has been confirmed that the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared on March 8 crashed into the southern Indian Ocean. It would be hard to choose a more complicated region of the ocean to be searching…
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Professor of Coastal Oceanography, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria
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Research Coordinator, Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa, Stellenbosch University
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Marine Biology and Head of School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University
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Lecturer, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University
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Assistant Professor, UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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