Learn how time scales for objects thousands versus millions of years old could be better synchronized.

Throughout the world, extreme weather is driving a growing death toll, exacting billions in damage, threatening food and ...

The North Pacific is the meeker of the polar twins, protected and constrained by continents on three sides, whereas the Southern Ocean runs free in its open circumpolar-channel. Only modest ...

A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s history Joel Sams The waters around two remote atolls in the central ...

Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science ... will focus on deep-sea areas in the Pacific Ocean, including parts of the hadal zone ...

Perhaps incredibly, some experts are putting their money on the Ring of Fire – predicting that, eventually, the Pacific Ocean will entirely disappear. Not from any environmental catastrophe ...

Because of the high number of subduction zones under the Pacific Ocean and Indonesia, these areas are more prone to experiencing these awe-inspiring forces of nature. The highly geologically activ ...

have been discovered on the boundary between Africa and the Pacific Ocean, a groundbreaking research, published in the journal Nature, has confirmed.