WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service announced critical habitat designations today for five threatened coral species living in the Pacific Ocean. The agency’s final rule protects 92 ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Bulker owner-operator Pacific Basin Shipping has secured a second $250m revolving credit facility from a syndicate of banks ...

Hundreds of fins undulate beneath the surface in a walled pond next to Icicle Creek at Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, a ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Early signs of a possible La Niña fall and winter are emerging in some climate models, federal forecasters announced Thursday ...

Pacific sleeper sharks were spotted in the South China Sea - 1,800 miles from home - offering new clues about deep-ocean ...

After Tropical Storm Chantal made landfall in South Carolina over the Fourth of July weekend, the tropics are now quiet. Well ...

Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

For Lam, the Pacific Ocean is one of a kind, she said, noting its size, geological history and geological complexity. "The Pacific is the most amazing ocean basin of all." ...

A new tropical rainstorm has formed in the eastern Pacific in the wake of Dalila, but the Atlantic Ocean remains quiet for now.