Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

G eoscientists have used earthquakes to study the composition of the lower portion of the Earth’s mantle under the Pacific ...

After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...

As waves pass through the Earth, their speed and behavior ... offering a higher resolution view of the mantle beneath the Pacific Ocean. However, researchers stress that more advanced models ...

The photo has been changed so we can see all of the earth’s surface in one picture. The Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest ocean. It covers about a third of the Earth. The Pacific Ocean ...

In 2021, Chinese scientists boarded a deep-sea sub, Fendouzhe, and ventured to the depths of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean ... first-ever systematic view of the ecosystem ...

The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.

Researchers have discovered an "unexpected" accumulation of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, deep underneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean ... like a "near-Earth supernova" that could ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...