The GPGP is an enormous area in the Pacific Ocean filled with plastic waste – an estimated 79,000 metric tons of it, to be ...

NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, released its winter seasonal outlook on Thursday. The federal ...

While there are so many Polynesian islands to choose from, each promising lasting memories, we dug deep into traveler tales ...

What makes this finding so significant is that it confirms what some archaeologists and anthropologists have suspected for ...

The United States has one of its six West Coast-based aircraft carriers operating in the Western Pacific Ocean again ...

The tropics remain unusually quiet, in a year when many of the experts predicted a very active hurricane season. View 2-Day ...

The kind of deep-sea mining that we've examined this week is only legally permitted inside a country's territorial waters.

Stupendously rare footage of a bigfin squid, known for its alien-like appearance and unbelievably long tentacles, has been ...

A weak La Niña is expected to develop and that could have some influence on both winter temperatures and precipitation, ...

The Ocean Cleanup recently declared the eradication of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP ... operational hiatus to deploy ...

The sea surface temperature in the Fijian archipelago in the southwestern Pacific is now at its maximum for more than 600 years. This finding is the result of an international research team's ...

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