By Kristine Sabillo More than half of the tree cover in Pacific atolls is largely composed of “abandoned and overgrown” colonial-era coconut palm plantations, reveal satellite images in a study ...

This is the San Pedro Fish Market and Restaurant, home of the World Famous Shrimp Tray. Yes, you read that right. They’re so ...

To monitor the Pacific Ocean for signs of El Niño or La Niña ... that is the difference between SST anomalies in two regions of the tropical Indian Ocean (see map): IOD index (or Dipole Mode Index, ...

The Pacific ocean is the biggest geographical feature on the plaent, bigger than all the Earth's continents combined. The story of how it got its name however is actually pretty simple, so have some ...

S earch giant Google has officially changed the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on Google Maps, following an order by ...

It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in the Pacific War: the defeat of the Japanese at Guadalcanal in February 1943. The Japanese were placed on the ...