Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

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

The U.S. Coast Guard previously told Newsweek that its missions in the western Pacific aim to strengthen maritime governance.

Ocean islands modify surface winds on the leeside. Such an island wake generally dissipates quickly and lasts only a few hundred kilometres downwind. Using new satellite data, we detect a wake ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

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

The new study found four of the world’s seven ocean basins have crossed the planetary boundary for ocean acidification. Polar regions have been most widely affected: Nearly 87 per cent of the Southern ...

There's a new development when it comes to protecting part of the Pacific Ocean. French Polynesia's president has announced plans to establish one of the world's largest networks of highly protected ...

Hurricane Erick has formed in the Pacific Ocean and threatens to bring flooding and mudslides to southern Mexico.

However, it also oversees an “exclusive economic zone” which covers two million square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean, roughly 2,000 kilometres due east of the Philippines. With a population of fewer ...

Something strange is lurking on the seafloor. Off the coast of Washington, deep in the Pacific Ocean, a dome-shaped object has been spotted on Google Earth.