Despite being far from where hurricanes form in the Atlantic, the tropical Pacific Ocean has a powerful influence on weather patterns there — and around the globe. This influence is part of a ...

A World War II bomber has been discovered 3 miles deep in the Pacific Ocean, and it’s still fully armed with an 83-year-old bomb fixed to the wing, NOAA Ocean Exploration says. The Douglas SBD ...

Three brothers are hoping to set a record time for rowing across the Pacific Ocean - having already conquered the Atlantic. Ewan, Jamie, and Lachlan Maclean, from Edinburgh, start their four-month ...

A major earthquake has rattled Tonga, an archipelago nation in the South Pacific Ocean that comprises some 170 islands. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the 7.0 magnitude quake struck roughly ...

Tens of millions of years ago, iguanas in North America floated across the Pacific Ocean. Clinging to vegetation washed into the sea, they traveled one-fifth of the way around the world ...

a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas – thousands of miles and one giant ocean away. They thought maybe they scurried there through ...

Left to right: Dr Richard Jeo, CI Asia Pacific SVP, Dr. M. Sanjayan CI CEO, Dr. Filimon Manoni, Pacific Ocean Commissioner ... in 28 countries around the globe. The newly designated systems ...

This time, it was the depths of the ocean. At a depth of about 5,000 metres, the abyssal zone of the Pacific Ocean has never seen light, yet something does still grow there. Ferromanganese crusts ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley stood before the roaring Pacific Ocean, delivering an emotional plea about the dire water crisis fueling the Palisades Fire.

In the Pacific Islands – my home – this reality is felt especially hard on an annual basis. Despite this region contributing the least to global emissions driving climate and ocean change ...

The study, titled "Strengthening of the equatorial Pacific upper-ocean circulation over the past three decades" was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, on October 31, 2024.

A slab of seafloor that was around when Earth’s earliest known dinosaurs emerged has been discovered underneath the Pacific Ocean. It has seemingly hovered there in a kind of mid-dive for more ...