Indian Ocean nations to mark 20 years since devastating tsunami
Tsunami-hit nations will next week commemorate the more than 220,000 people who died in the Boxing Day disaster two decades ...
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2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: what to know 20 years on
Survivors and victims' relatives will next week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, ...
Cyclone Chido map: ‘Horrific’ devastation as French island Mayotte hit by most powerful cyclone in 90 years
A cyclone barrelling towards southeast Africa for the last four days caused widespread devastation in Mayotte after it struck ...
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The Africa Institute gives voice to Indian Ocean narratives in forum
The final symposium was part of a season convened by leading scholars Jeremy Prestholdt, Professor of History at the University of California ... and Print in the Indian Ocean World. Following this, ...
20 Maps That Changed the World
The Mercator Projection, Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, the Fra Mauro Map, and even Google Maps have all shaped how we experience ...
Sunken shipwrecks tell the story of Alaska’s ‘forgotten’ WWII battlefield
U.S. and Japanese forces fought over the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Relics of this conflict can still be found on ...
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Drowning in plastic: The oceans' growing constellations of trash
These tiny particles drift across the seas, carried by ocean flows from bustling coastlines to the most remote corners of the world ... on the planet’s history. To map the hypothetical journey ...
Disgraceful, Say Veterans As Army HQ Removes Picture Of Historic Surrender In Dhaka
While it is not clear when the photograph was removed from the army headquarters, veterans believe it is part of the ...
Earth set to change forever: a sixth ocean “on the verge of forming”
The formation of a sixth ocean, and the tectonic shifts that lie ahead, are proof that Earth is a dynamic, ever-evolving ...
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National Geographic series gives comprehensive look into deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
It's been 20 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami, which spanned 14 countries ... events of one of the deadliest natural disasters in history The powerful series features personal accounts from ...
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Shipwreck Near Kenya May Be from Vasco da Gama’s Final Voyage and Would Be ‘Archaeological Stardust’
Not far off the Kenyan coast, maritime archaeologists believe they have found the wreckage of a galleon belonging to Vasco da ...
France rushes aid to Mayotte, with hundreds feared dead and hunger rising after Cyclone Chido
France used ships and military aircraft to rush rescue workers and supplies to its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Monday after the island group was battered by its worst cyclone in nearly a ...