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A Fiery Necklace Around the Pacific The Ring of Fire isn’t a literal ring you can see, but a band of more than 450 volcanoes that wraps around the Pacific Ocean like a blazing necklace.
Hurricane season is just weeks away, and the Pacific Ocean is cooling off again. That’s important because it can create conditions more conducive to hurricanes.
An area west of Mexico is being monitored for a possible tropical storm or hurricane next week, as a storm-sparking pulse moves across the Pacific Ocean.
In an experiment in the South China Sea, scientists dropped a cow carcass into the ocean to investigate what would happen and ...
Tropical Storm Alvin is expected to form in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. Here's a look at the storm's projected path and spaghetti models.
The largest and deepest of the world's ocean basins is the Pacific Ocean, covering approximately 63 million square miles. It's also considered the oldest of the world's ocean basins.
A large cargo ship transporting thousands of vehicles is adrift in the Pacific Ocean after a deck carrying EVs caught fire, forcing crew to abandon the vessel. The 600-foot-long Morning Midas was ...
What started as a Stanford migration study of Loggerhead Sea Turtles has now uncovered new effects global warming has on the Pacific Ocean.
Scientists probing the bottom of the Pacific Ocean made a surprising discovery: animals living underneath the seafloor in an area with volcanic activity. Giant tubeworms, which are known as the ...
A Fijian crested iguana resting on a coconut palm on the island of Fiji in the South Pacific. The four species of iguanas that inhabit Fiji and Tonga today are descended from ancestors that ...
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