Bangkok Desk, May 4 (efe_epa).Bangkok Desk, May 4 (efe_epa). — A boat carrying asylum seekers has been intercepted off the coast of Australia’s remote Cocos Islands territory, according to local media ...

CANBERRA, Australia, June 13 (UPI) -- Australian maritime authorities are being stretched by efforts to patrol thousands of miles of ocean around the Cocos Islands, the latest territory targeted by ...

"You get to the point where you're feeling that not much is going to surprise you anymore and then something does ... and that something [on the Cocos Keeling Islands] was actually the amount of ...

In 2017, Jennifer Lavers, Ph.D., a research scientist at the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, spent a year cataloging the waste that washed up on the shores of the ...

Australia’s Department of Defence (DoD) has requested expressions of interest (EoIs) for the construction of a new airborne electronic warfare (EW)/intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) ...

Liam McHugh does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Plastic ocean trash could last for centuries. Plastic items accounted for over 95% of all debris recorded on the Cocos Islands. The trash included an estimated 373,000 toothbrushes. We know trash is ...

Researchers who recently surveyed the uninhabited Cocos (Keelings) Islands in Australia found an estimated 414 million pieces of plastic debris. Jennifer Lavers, a research scientist at the University ...