The ocean is a vital part of our planet's climate system. Through its global circulation patterns, the ocean draws vast ...

Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin, and many people believed Polynesian voyagers simply lucked into finding th ...

A recent study on the ancient glaciers of Mauna Kea on Hawaii Island has revealed important insights about how past climate ...

As the iceberg broke away from a glacier in early 2025, it opened a window into an ancient, untouched world beneath the ice.

With curators from mainland Japan, Taiwan and Okinawa, the festival was anchored by works from those three regions, with the ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet (200 meters) below the ocean surface and sustains life across our planet. It includes the twilight zone and the midnight zone, where ...

The majestic waka hourua Hinemoana is returning to Te Waipounamu, carrying a vital kaupapa: revitalising Māori and Pacific ...

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

On 1 May 1976, a sixty-foot Polynesian voyaging canoe named Hōkūle‘a sailed southeast into the Pacific Ocean from the Hawaiian island of Maui. Double-hulled, steered by a long paddle and powered by ...

A solitary hydroid, a small predator related to jellyfish, drifts in currents approximately 380 meters deep in the recently uncovered area. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute) If food and ...

(AP Production/ Serginho Roosblad) In this photo provided by Gigablue, circular structures called booms containing particles engineered by the company Gigablue, float near a research vessel in the ...

Pink dye is released into Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada, as part of a project by the company Planetary Technologies to test whether adding alkaline minerals to the ocean can help slow ...