Extreme rainfall events can cause devastating floods, landslides, and widespread damage, yet predicting them remains a major challenge. While scientists often study how often and how intensely it ...

The B-1B bomber deployment in Japan will reinforce stability in the Indo-Pacific region, the U.S. Pacific Air Forces said.

The Indonesian air base is about 856 miles away from Darwin in northern Australia, where 2,500 U.S. Marines are now deployed.

Even within a massive body of water such as the Atlantic Ocean, different bodies of water mingle and shift, depending on the ...

The ocean naturally pulls in about a quarter of the carbon dioxide people produce. It's the planet’s largest carbon sink.

Despite the size and importance of the Indian Ocean, American strategists have often treated it as a backwater. It’s true that Washington’s most acute security challenges lie in the western Pacific, ...

There will be an increased chance for sneaker waves and rip currents at all beaches along the Pacific Coast until Monday ...

While meteorologists have certainly gotten better at tracking tropical cyclone development from inception to landfall using ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

Current local time in Pacific Standard Time (Pacific Standard Time time zone). Get information about the Pacific Standard Time time zone. Local time and date, DST adjusted (where ever daylight saving ...

A prime example of this phenomenon is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Two types of currents do most of the work ... or tracking volcanic ash and wildfire smoke as it drifts across the ocean and air. ...