The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's ocean basins, according to the National Ocean Service. It contains more than half of the free water on Earth, spanning around 63 million square miles.

The conservation of one of the richest wild salmon spawning grounds in America is under the guidance of an alliance most ...

Challenging and revising traditional perspectives with new evidence, this collection addresses the new international role of the Pacific Basin nations and the political economic forces that are ...

The new coral record shows that the local ocean ... basin-wide warming over the past century. Dr. Ariaan Purich said that understanding the long-term climate variability in the Pacific is crucial ...

Fed by the mighty Columbia and Snake rivers and their many tributaries that eventually reach the Pacific Ocean, it stretches ... All in all, the Columbia River basin is one of the largest in ...