New research suggests iguanas journeyed further than any other land-dwelling vertebrate has ever travelled on the ocean ...

Scientists have quantified how much of the cooling observed since 1990 has been driven by an influx of freshwater that’s ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian warship on Monday rescued a Lithuanian solo rower who had encountered a tropical cyclone while attempting to cross the Pacific Ocean from California.

The Pacific Ocean is a vast expanse that holds many secrets, and recently, scientists have uncovered a rare climate reversal ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

Donald Trump is likely to keep projecting power in Asia but his focus on other priorities will reshape regional dynamics ...

Historically, the ocean has been ... Atlantic and Pacific, the southern gyres and Southern Hemisphere supergyre influence climate while transporting carbon around the globe. In addition to ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

It forms part of the global ocean ... the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans. The system regulates Earth’s climate and pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe.

Suddenly Hōkūleʻa was racing, surfing waves that rose so high they blocked the view of Diamond ... He was just learning about how Pacific peoples had navigated the ocean, guided by ...

One of Heather Welch’s jobs — before she was fired via an email giving her just 90 minutes to pack up and leave — was to prevent collisions between the ships and whales navigating the water ...