Couples who skip Sri Lanka are missing out on Asia's best-kept secret 🌅💑

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#travel #southasia #srilanka #kandy #colombo #indianocean #wanderlust

#Google to build new #AI #datacentre on tiny #Australia's #ChristmasIsland, a 52-square-mile territory in #IndianOcean
Residents are concerned impact #datacenter may have on energy supplies on the island, which is 1,500 km from mainland Australia and relies on #diesel to supplement limited #renewables
A recent #tabletop #wargame involving the Australia, #US and #Japan highlighted Christmas Island's role as a forward line of defence for Australia in any regional conflict
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/google-planning-powerful-ai-data-centre-tiny-australian-indian-ocean-outpost-2025-11-06/

Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-gravity-hole-in-the-ocean-may-be-the-ghost-of-an-ancient-sea1/ <-- shared technical media article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102694 <-- shared 2023 paper
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https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/geoid.html <-- technical description of a geoid
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[theories abound]
"... KEY POINTS
• Employing time dependent global mantle convection models since the Cretaceous. [the authors] simulate the origin of the enigmatic Indian Ocean geoid low
• Plumes forming along the edges of the African Large Low Shear Velocity province (LLSVP) control the regional geoid in the Indian Ocean
• These plumes, in turn are generated by lower mantle Tethyan slabs that perturb the African LLSVP…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #geoid #gravity #mapping #global #remotesensing #plume #ocean #ancientocean #gravityhole #geophysics #IndianOcean #geology #structuralgeology #crust #mantle #core #high #low #potsdamgravitypotato #IOGL #tomography #model #modeling #plate #tectonicplate #Tethys #slab #mantleplume #LLSVP #AfricanLargeLowShearVelocity

Shadows #sunsets #sunset #sunsetphotography #ocean #sky #summer #mauritius #ilemaurice #endofday #peaceful #shadows #beautifulsky #naturephotography #nature #indianocean #photography #naturelovers

Madagascar president says he fled the country in fear for his life after military rebellion

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina said he has fled the country in fear …
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AndryRajoelina #Antananarivo #APTopNews #Business #Coupsdetat #Generalnews #IndianOcean #Madagascar #MarcRavalomanana #MichaelRandrianirina #Militaryanddefense #Politics #Protestsanddemonstrations #Rebellionsanduprisings #World #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/184430/

Enhui Liao, Wenfang Lu, Liang Xue, and Yan Du attribute an anomalous drop in Indian Ocean CO₂ uptake to large-scale warming and reduced physical transport.

https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10397

#IndianOcean #carbon #co2

Army Faction Declares Support for Madagascar Protesters

A Madagascan army unit that played a key role in the nation’s 2009 coup has declared its support…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #arizona #Elections #Europe #France #IndianOcean #Latvia #LV #Madagascar #Military #Mozambique #Politics #SocialMedia #UnitedNations
https://www.newsbeep.com/178742/