U.S. carriers were in Thailand, Japan and the Eastern Pacific this week, while a carrier from France is set to visit the ...

For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has been known as the ...

January’s record heat highlights how human-driven ocean warming is increasingly overwhelming natural climate cooling patterns ...

This discovery was made possible through a groundbreaking technique that maps seismic waves traveling through the Earth's ...

You may have noticed that most plane routes avoid flying directly over the Pacific Ocean, and the reasoning behind that ...

Andrew Babbin tries to pack light for work trips. Along with the travel essentials, though, he also brings a roll each of ...

The Pacific Ocean is disappearing ... so it would be fascinating to think what the world might look like in 200 to 300 million years’ time.” ...

A full year of observations now yields a world map of aerosols ... to the blue pixels on the locations of deserts and oceans. The third map shows the amount of reflecting aerosols—with a ...

A rare dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the Pacific island nation, highlighting the existential ...

Take Japan, for example: a tiny nation, all things considered – and yet, thanks to its location within the Ring of Fire, it experiences as much as ten percent of all the world’s volcanic activity.

The Pacific Ocean ... the site of the world’s first underwater volcano observatory, the New Millennium Observatory (NEMO)—though, it’s now monitored by the Ocean Observatories Initiative ...