Four Chinese naval vessels were spotted transiting from the East China Sea to the Philippine Sea, the Japanese military said.

Maui's Haleakala volcano and the rest of the Hawaiian Islands formed out of molten lava as the Pacific plate drifted over the hotspot as three to four inches a year. Map Source: TASA Graphic Arts ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from the world’s oceans and rivers. They even put a price tag on cleaning up the ...

More than a million years ago, when the Pacific Island Plate moved atop a volcanic hotspot rising through the Earth’s crust, sea-level volcanic islands formed what eventually became the U.S.’s ...

The nation made up of three tropical coral islands and home 1,500 people on a combined land area of 4 square miles (10 sq. km ...

Scientists have discovered an island off the coast of Brazil that ... “Geologically, we were able to discover that the clays were formed after the last volcanic activities recorded 45 million ...

Growing ties between China and the Cook Islands present challenges for Australia and New Zealand’s influence in the region ...