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 ...

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. Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn ...

US forces seized a sanctioned Palau-flagged tanker carrying Iranian crude in the Bay of Bengal, marking the first such action in the eastern Indian Ocean. The move expands Washington’s sanctions ...

In 2025, nearly 900 Rohingya refugees were reported missing or dead in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal, making it the ...

Powerful cyclones can push seawater miles inland, threatening densely populated communities and critical infrastructure built ...

Long before industrialization, abrupt shifts in India’s summer monsoon slashed plankton levels in the Bay of Bengal, halving the ocean’s surface food supply. A new study 1, based on 22,000-year-old ...

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 on ...

Sri Lanka started to offload 208 crew members from a second Iranian vessel off its coast on Thursday, a day after 87 people were killed and several others were still missing after a U.S. submarine ...