Pacific Ocean

MEXICO CITY—Hurricane Kristy strengthened into a Category 5 storm on Thursday and was expected to remain away from land as it churns in the Pacific Ocean and weakens over the ...

MEXICO CITY—Kristy strengthened into a hurricane in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday and was expected to remain ...

Scientists believe hot magma will erupt under the Pacific Ocean floor in deep waters off Vancouver Island after ...

Unbeknownst to most people, Japan is currently in the process of releasing about a million tons of radioactive ...

Japan's plans to release radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean are consistent ...

Scattered around the coasts of the world are ticking time bombs, so far virtually unknown to the public; ...

A United Airlines flight suddenly took a steep dive shortly after take off from a Hawaiian airport, plunging ...

A new island has emerged in the southwest Pacific Ocean after an underwater volcano erupted near Tonga, although its ...

Nainoa Thompson did not set out to rewrite history. He just wanted to go for an adventure. But ...

Relax for more than an hour and let your worries be replaced by stunning aerial views from some ...

Relax for an hour and let your worries be replaced by stunning aerial timelapse views from some of ...

Commentary With the biggest maritime force on the planet, China is in a strong position to control the ...

In a game of chess that spans the globe, China seems to be winning. The United States doesn’t ...

LIMA—Two people drowned off a beach in northern Peru, the local civil defense authority reported on Sunday, after ...

WASHINGTON—Beginning more than a millennium ago, intrepid seafarers traversed vast Pacific Ocean expanses in double-hulled sailing canoes to ...

Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif.—A privately designed, unmanned rocket built to carry satellites was destroyed in an explosive ...

At the center of the Pacific Ocean, there is a small 3.6 square mile island called Canton (Kanton), ...

MANILA—Strong winds and high waves lashed the eastern Philippines on Monday as a strong typhoon barrelled past in ...

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands—Dutch inventor Boyan Slat is widening his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean ...

There's a potential solution for ocean pollution.

Update: Multiple media reports seemed to suggest this jellyfish is a new species. We asked the NOAA and ...

Spotting a killer whale in the Monterey Bay south of San Jose may not be that rare of ...

We regularly hear about how El Niño events raise the temperature across much of the planet, contributing to ...

Many consider the deep-sea just as fascinating and mysterious as space, as we have yet to develop an ...

The IMAX film Galapagos 3D is a fascinating close-up of the natural museum of life that inhabits this ...

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which is currently handling cleanup efforts at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...

Three main gaps threaten Canada's position as a leader in ocean science, say experts.