A larger shelf means legal access to more of the ocean floor’s riches: animals, hydrocarbons, and, perhaps most important, ...

Puget Sound might be sheltered from feeling many strong winds directly, but it’s not immune to their ripple effects. For ...

Trump tours wildfire-damaged Pacific Palisades, vows to support California ‘100%’ - The California governor smiled as he ...

Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ...

The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and ...

The Obama administration yesterday announced its intention to designate a vast portion of U.S.-controlled areas of the Pacific Ocean as a nature preserve. Although packaged as part of the president’s ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out ...

The shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep sea made headlines last year – now the team ...

Cetaceans—marine mammals that include dolphins, porpoises, and whales—are crucial to coastal ecology. Their presence fosters ...