Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean ...

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The Pacific Ring of Fire, encircling the Pacific Ocean, accounts for approximately 90% of the world’s earthquakes, with 81% ...

Early 2026 has brought renewed scrutiny to how Earth-observing satellites register extreme ocean events. Widely circulated ...

The southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to ...

I've been to the Mariana Trench. The choice is clear: Protect one of earth's last frontiers or destroy it before we even understand what we're losing.

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so big? Covering about 63 million square miles (163 million square kilometers) — ...