A quarter-million people were killed when a tsunami inundated Indian Ocean coastlines the day after Christmas in 2004. Now scientists have found evidence that the event was not a first-time occurrence.

Where in the world is Matt Lauer on the last day of his world wide travel adventure? Matt goes to Praslin in the Seychelles archipelago island. Seychelles is a vacation destination that's more about scenery than sightseeing.

The German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System for the Indian Ocean (GITEWS) runs on track. Main milestones like the development of the automatic data processing software SeisComP3, as well as the underwater communication for the transmission of the pressure data from the ocean floor to a warning centre are already finalised.

The thermal structure of the equatorial Indian Ocean is characterized by warmer temperatures in the east and cooler temperatures in the west. During certain years, this pattern switches to anomalous conditions known as the Indian Ocean Dipole; one such dipole event occurred in 2006.

On June 28 the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a project that will help seven countries[1]in the Southwest Indian Ocean region, to manage fisheries resources and reduce poverty through the sustainable development of marine resources.

Huge waves that struck Reunion Island and coastlines across Indonesia earlier this month all originated from the same storm that occurred south of Cape Town, South Africa, and were tracked across the entire Indian Ocean for some 10 000 kilometres over a nine-day period by ESA's Envisat satellite.

The signature of climate change over the past 40 years has been identified in temperatures of the Indian Ocean near Australia.

Air India would be adding four more aircraft to the Air India Express fleet this year to expand its budget flight services, with plans of increasing it to 25 by 2008.