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The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.
Writers, translators, editors and publishers working on such exchanges are cartographers, who map China and its orientation ...
In an early case of industrial espionage, Robert Fortune disguised himself as a local and took tea leaves and the secrets of ...
With the US inserting itself in the Israel-Iran conflict, more uncertainty grips the world. The Islamic Republic has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil supply route. With global oil ...
Mon May 19, 2025 12:00 AM Last update on: Thu May 22, 2025 04:32 PM Medieval Bengal's links to the Straits world, a narrow stretch of water connecting to Southeast Asia and beyond, are overlooked.
TOKYO -- In a scene open to interpretation as either a celebration of diversity or a sign of disunity, the leaders of seven Bay of Bengal nations -- each clad in distinct national or formal attire ...
In his 2022 article “The Bay of Bengal Could be the Key to a Free and Open Indo-Pacific,” Anu Anwar argued that the Bay of Bengal is a microcosm of the emerging multi-polar world order, with its ...
Their study, published in Nature Geoscience on Monday, was a collaboration between scientists from India, China, France and the US. The Bay of Bengal covers less than 1 per cent of the world’s ocean ...
Strong and weak monsoons can influence marine productivity in the Bay of Bengal, a study exploring fluctuations in the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) over the past 22,000 years has found.
Extreme Indian summer monsoon states stifled Bay of Bengal productivity across the last deglaciation. Nature Geoscience, 2025; DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01684-6 ...
Although the Bay of Bengal covers less than 1% of the global ocean, it supplies nearly 8% of the world’s fishery production. Scientists are looking to the past to predict the effect of monsoons ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Leaders of nations in the Bay of Bengal region pledged to improve trade and transport cooperation as they concluded a summit in Bangkok on Friday. Enjoy unlimited reading on ...