Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already ...

Salmon are struggling to survive. So are the families of endangered southern resident orcas, with a population of just 73, ...

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

Since the fires broke out Jan. 7, Trump has accused the state of sending too much water to the Pacific Ocean instead of south toward Los Angeles. But the federally managed Central Valley Project doesn ...

They are common and can be two-faced. First, Southern Californians know droughts. We went through a prolonged drought from 2012 to 2016, and before that there were the droughts of 2007-09, 1987-92 and ...

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

The Great Sea Reef that hugs Fiji’s northwestern shores is a biodiversity hotspot and deeply important to the country and its people.

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 ...

Axial Seamount is a young, 30 million-year-old undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. coast, and it’s expected to ...

Scientists say they've discovered evidence of a "lost world" lurking deep below the Pacific Ocean, a surprising finding.

The Climate Prediction Center said Thursday that La Niña conditions emerged in the Pacific Ocean in December ... with 18 named storms in the Atlantic basin and 11 hurricanes, despite the fact ...