For more than 30 years, the Pacific Rim Whale Festival has celebrated the arrival of migrating grey whales to Canada’s wild ...

Photographer and Costa ambassador Andy Mann ventures to a Chilean archipelago that draws comparisons to the Galápagos.

Hurricane Season: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast a range of 13 to 19 total named storms during ...

Around 90 percent of the world's quakes pop off in the disjointed string of subduction zones that trace the so-called ring of fire, which stretches in an arc around the Pacific Ocean from the ...

The Japanese military has been closely monitoring the Chinese aircraft carrier in the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea.

Found in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, the flower hat jellyfish (Olindias ... species in action at the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in Hawaii. The colossal squid, not to be ...

Only a tiny fraction of the deep ocean is explored, leaving 66% of Earth’s surface largely unseen. Researchers urge global, ...

Global temperatures hit record highs the past three years in a row—and the people of the Pacific have been feeling ... Abnormally warm ocean waters can bleach corals, which occurs when stressed ...

In the decade that followed, she added more firsts to the list, becoming the first person to solo flight across the Pacific Ocean. Buoyed by her successes, she began planning the most ambitious ...

The suit contends that Trump overstepped his powers under the U.S. Antiquities Act in opening most of the monument waters back up to commercial fishing. Only Congress, the suit argues, has the power ...

But the warming is speeding up. The top part of the ocean is warming up about 24 percent faster than it did a few decades ago, and that rate is likely to increase in the future. The uppermost part ...

The Flood Insurance Rate Maps used by FEMA are based on antiquated ... (FEMA did not respond to a request by National Geographic for an interview.) FIRM’s shortfalls date to their creation ...