USS Blue Ridge, a U.S. Navy command and control ship, has visited four countries in the South Pacific since mid- April.

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...

Dating back to a German geographer favoured by Hitler and popularised by a former Japanese PM, the term was a strategic ...

Open a book of maps and look for the “Indo-Pacific” region – it likely won’t be there. Yet the Indo-Pacific is now central to ...

For our new study, we reviewed the literature on the movements of marine migratory species from 1990 to 2017. We synthesised the start and end points of migrations reported in more than 1,300 ...

Dr. Wozniak was parked on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean beneath nearly 1.6 miles of water in Alvin, a research submersible. As far as he could see lay a mostly barren expanse of jet-black rock.

A tiny island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is the staging ground of ... can live and work in the U.S. It was one of the few countries spared Trump’s sweeping tariffs.

And it happened unexpectedly fast. If the trend continues, it could encourage the return of La Niña-like conditions in the Pacific Ocean later this year. And if that happens, winds over the ...

PALAU, Western Pacific - The brilliant blue waters, thick foliage and bucolic atmosphere on this seemingly idyllic archipelago deep in the Pacific Ocean belie the key role it now plays in a ...

U.S. law permits citizens of Palau and two other former colonies in the Pacific to enlist like Americans. In a nod to that relationship, residents have nicknamed their island “the United States ...

but how they infiltrate critical ocean systems. For the study, researchers synthesized depth-profile data from 1,885 stations collected between 2014 and 2024 to map microplastic distribution ...