and north through the Pacific Ocean. Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two ...

I n 2022, researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus made a discovery on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. While surveying the Liliʻuokalani Ridge in the Papahānaumokuākea M ...

A seabed mining company has asked the Trump administration for approval to harvest the ocean floor for critical metals in ...

This image of the northern Pacific Ocean was captured on Thursday morning, March 27, 2025. Western North America is on the right. Asia is on the left. Storms continue to line up from west to east.

Much of the debris that ends up in the North Pacific Ocean gets drawn into the North Pacific Gyre by currents. The North Pacific Gyre is a swirling vortex of water made up of four prevailing ...

Nodules on the Pacific Ocean floor. Photo by the National Oceanography Centre. No restrictions. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

It is native to the cold waters of the North Pacific Ocean, ranging from Japan and the ... meaning it spends most of its time near the sea floor. The lumpsucker is a relatively small fish ...

The Equator splits the Pacific Ocean into two parts: The North Pacific and the South Pacific ... Image of the Earth from a satellite. The ocean floor can be flat or it can have caves and mountains.

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

That curious question led scientists to connect oceanographic conditions in the northern Pacific Ocean to fish abundance in its deep twilight zone by measuring how successfully elephant seals ...