Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

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Karen Madorin is a retired teacher, writer, photographer, outdoors lover, and sixth-generation Kansan.

Raw sewage from Mexico has poured into Southern California for decades, polluting the Pacific, closing beaches and sickening ...

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One hotspot may have formed the Pacific’s largest volcanoes, linking the Ontong-Java Plateau to the Louisville Ridge.

The geology of the Cascadia subduction zone has largely staved off climate-related sea-level rise in the Pacific Northwest, ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an undersea volcanic mountain chain.

A multinational team of scientists aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus will set sail Monday for a 22-day mission to ...

Scientists Set New Record of the Deepest Water Site Ever Drilled and Cored in Ocean Drilling History Ocean exploration is not ...

San Diego’s breadth of diverse ecosystems still encourages community gatherings. Locals often take to these same green spaces ...