China extends reach in South Pacific with Cook Islands deal
No details have been released, but analysts and environmentalists fear it will pave the way for closer security ties and the ...
Howdy Trump at Quad Summit in India
US President Donald Trump will attend the Quad Summit in India later this year –– likely his first visit to the country in his second term ...
Map Shows US and Chinese Aircraft Carriers in Pacific This Week
Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 12 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of February 14.
The World from PRX1d
Sea turtles shown to use magnetic ‘map’ to navigate ocean
Sea turtles are incredible cute creatures that also know their way around a map, at least a magnetic “map” in the oceans they traverse through their lives. That’s according to new research published ...
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Mapmaking in the mind: How the brain builds mental maps of the world
Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.
An unexpected anomaly was found in the Pacific Ocean – and it could be a global time marker
There seems to be too much of a radioactive element in rocks deep in the Pacific Ocean – how did it get there 10 million ...
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Pacific War author’s ‘Guam,’ due in March, fills a void
“Guam: The Battle for an American Island in World War II,” is No. 8 on James Hallas’ well-regarded list of titles covering ...
Heavy mudslides and flooding shut down PCH, sweep vehicle and firefighter into ocean
A massive amount of rainwater and mud was unleashed onto Pacific Coast Highway on Thursday, sweeping an L.A. Fire Department ...
Foraging seals enable scientists to measure fish abundance across the vast Pacific Ocean
Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that ...
The White House says it’s a ‘fact’ that the Gulf of Mexico has been renamed. Is that right?
For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has been known as the ...
County Board: How they voted
Members of the McLeod County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted to approve the following resolutions at their Aug. 3 meeting. For more County Board coverage, see the Leader's Aug. 5 print ...
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The possibilities of climate grief
ONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES of being alive on earth in the age of climate catastrophe is that we find ourselves in the peculiar position of mourning the future.