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

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

Trans-Pacific spot rates from Asia to the U.S. West Coast saw a marked reduction, falling 8% during the week ending July 4 to ...

After the attack, crews sailed the USS "New Orleans" backwards for more than 1,000 miles across the Pacific. Since then, the ...

After Tropical Storm Chantal made landfall in South Carolina over the Fourth of July weekend, the tropics are now quiet. Well ...

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ancient and well-travelled grain.

A seabed mining agreement with the island nation of Nauru would reduce China's influence while establishing America as an ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

In a new study published today in Science Advances, my colleagues and I have uncovered the earliest evidence of rice in the ...

Nearly a mile deep, the Pacific Ocean volcano known as Axial Seamount is drawing increasing scrutiny from scientists who only discovered its existence in the 1980s.

Located in a darkened part of the northeast Pacific Ocean, the submarine volcano has erupted three times since its discovery — in 1998, 2011 and 2015 — according to Bill Chadwick, a research ...

The remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer encountered a 49-foot-tall “solitary geological feature” while exploring the Pacific seafloor northeast of Kuailhelani on April 22. NOAA Ocean ...