Oregon State University research into marine protected areas plays a crucial role in the historic High Seas Treaty that goes ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

The Indonesian Throughflow carries both warm water and fresh water from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean. As the only ...

The researchers also found that combining data from both the Maluku Strait and the nearby Halmahera Strait further improved ...

Winter storms in the North Pacific are moving north, reshaping rainfall, snowpack, and wildfire risk across the western ...

Animals that researchers call “supersucklers” come back to nurse even after they can hunt, mate and fend for themselves.

New research suggests ancient islanders may have migrated across the Pacific in response to shifting rainfall. As the west grew drier and the east wetter, people may have followed water to survive.

Climate change is unexpectedly causing north Pacific storms to shift toward the Arctic, throwing projections for future West ...

Tropical upwelling zones are often overshadowed by their higher-latitude counterparts in ocean science, yet they play an ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences retrieved 13 underwater monitoring structures from the deep reefs off the Pacific island of Guam, which have been gathering data there at depths up ...

(KRON) — A body that washed up on the north side of the Monterey Bay was confirmed to be Erica Fox, a strong ocean swimmer who went missing during a suspected shark attack at Lovers Point in Pacific ...

The US military conducted a strike against an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing two people, according to US Southern Command. “On Dec. 29, at the ...