The typically unremarkable central Pacific hurricane basin saw a surprising uptick in storms in late July as both major Hurricane Iona and Tropical Storm Keli spun harmlessly far from land. "The ...

The Pacific Ocean is filled with tropical activity as forecasters track Hurricane Gil, which is strengthening as it moves into the Central Pacific Basin, in addition to several other disturbances that ...

Hawaii may be paradise, but like the Caribbean Sea or other areas in the tropics, hurricanes and tropical storms are a part of its history. On average, four to five tropical cyclones occur in the ...

In the spring of 1979, an experimental mining machine descended nearly five kilometers into the Pacific Ocean and etched a ...

Melting of the Antarctic ice sheet due to global warming has long-term, irreversible societal impacts with important ...

For the first time in more than a century, migrating salmon have climbed close to the headwaters of the Klamath River's most ...

First, a tsunami, which literally translates to “harbor wave” in Japanese, is a series of waves that inundate coastlines. Tsunamis are generated by an upward lift of waterway bottoms, including oceans ...