Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

Hurricane Flossie has strengthened to a Category 2 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast. The National Hurricane Center reports ...

As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet. Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins.

A U.S. Navy E/A-18G electronic warfare aircraft prepares to make an arrested landing on the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on October 1.

An international team of geologists and seismologists has created a newly refined map of Zealandia—considered to be the ‘eighth continent of the world’ that is beneath the Pacific Ocean ...

Pacific Islands the world’s most aid-reliant region, report finds. Australia is the largest donor to the islands, providing about 40 percent of total development finance from 2008-2021.

Scientists have mapped one of the most hazardous spots on the globe in unprecedented detail: a 600-mile geologic boundary just off the Pacific Northwest coast. Along this fraught stretch, called ...