President Trump’s latest order lifts long-standing restrictions on fishing in one of the world’s most pristine marine ...

An April 17 executive order from the White House allows commercial fishing to resume in the waters near the Pacific Islands ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a proclamation saying he is easing federal restrictions on commercial fishing in a vast protected area of the central Pacific known as the Pacific Islands ...

This story appears in the September 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a tiny dot on the immense Pacific Ocean. Pilot Avi Klapfer floods the ballast tanks, and we sink, surrounded ...

Since National Geographic began making maps in 1915 ... ACC transports more water than any other ocean current. It pulls in waters from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, helping drive ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic ... voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map, the first that ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The map above is essentially an x-ray of the ocean, and the colors show where it’s feeling the most impact from human ...

This story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Barack Obama slipped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean wearing only fins, trunks, a mask, and a snorkel.

This story appears in the November 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. There is a kingdom of coral in the principality of the Pacific Ocean called Kimbe Bay. “It is a world,” says ...

This month National ... the Pacific yourself. Starting October 6, you can visit the immersive experience—and leave completely dry. Go FURTHER into National Geographic’s “Encounter: Ocean ...