A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Although its land area is modest – only 1.7 square kilometers – Clipperton’s strategic and ecological significance is ...

The summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa are now also targets of the strong high pressure ridge north of the state causing the ...

Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...

The U.S. Pacific Air Forces previously told Newsweek that its spy aircraft were conducting "planned, routine operations" in ...

Herbert was haunted by the specter of unstoppable dunes. In Dune, he imagined a desert that swallowed an entire planet—an ...

A sweeping new study has unveiled a global map of marine mollusks that reflects not just present-day ocean conditions but ...

The Pacific Ocean has shaped the course of human history serving as a vast arena for exploration, colonization, trade, and ...

The U.S. Pacific Fleet commander says China has failed to intimidate rival claimant states into surrendering their sovereign interests in the South China Sea despite its intensifying “bullying tactics ...

A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...

Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human agricultural and industrial ...

The project also provides information about the processes, scale and implications of sea-level rise and variability of extreme events on South Pacific communities. It also makes sea-level data more ...