With a fundamentally different playing field today, the United States and its Western partners should adapt, if not adopt, ...

People along the densely populated Pacific coasts are exposed to strongly fluctuating rainfall patterns: In East Asia, heavy rain falls in summer, and flooding is already one of the climate risks in ...

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

No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...

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

Sea lions, dolphins and birds are sick and dying because of a toxic algae bloom in Southern California—and animal care ...

A strong storm brewing offshore is causing breaking waves over 30 feet in some areas and creating dangerous ocean conditions.

Many people refer to orcas as “killer whales“, and for good reason. They are the ultimate top dogs of the ocean, able to take down large whales and even great white sharks! But what about humans — ...

The Pacific Ocean is a vast expanse that holds many secrets, and recently, scientists have uncovered a rare climate reversal ...

National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists in the San Francisco region are warning people in several Californian coastal ...

The islands of Hawaii are simply spectacular. The islands belong to the United States of America as the 50th and most recent ...

With some of the largest Exclusive Economic Zones in the world, Pacific Island states are leveraging legal frameworks to advance ocean justice. This approach aims to ensure that historically ...