A Canadian company has announced that its U.S. subsidiary has submitted applications to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to mine the seafloor ...

A new company is testing deep sea desalination technology that can turn saltwater to drinking water without the harmful ...

Sarcastic fringeheads are small yet mighty saltwater fish found in the Pacific Ocean. Known for their massive jaws and mouths ...

The U.S. has stationed warships such as aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines in the Western Pacific Ocean. The ...

Venture beneath the surface of the ocean and you'll find a world as alien as any far-flung destination. In the darkness and ...

During the NOAA team’s ongoing Beyond the Blue: Illuminating the Pacific expedition aboard the Okeanos Explorer, researchers ...

"Hawaii is on the frontlines of the plastic crisis, as the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre collects marine debris and delivers [it] to our shorelines—this is debris from countries across the Pacific, ...

Three miles down, cameras glimpsed the shattered interior of the USS Yorktown, sunk in the Pacific Ocean in the 1942 Battle ...

Residents around India’s Vembanad Lake, battered by floods since December and distant ocean swells known as 'kallakkadal,' ...

Novelist Richard Powers has written another love letter to the planet—in this case, the 99 percent of Earth’s biosphere that ...

Australia's primary climate drivers are currently in a neutral phase, with the weather likely to be dominated by more local ...

Our understanding of our own planet is still changing and a relatively new theory about how plate tectonics works.