G eoscientists have used earthquakes to study the composition of the lower portion of the Earth’s mantle under the Pacific ...

Geography is a key subject for competitive exams such as UPSC, SSC, Banking, and other government job exams. Understanding ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

The San Andreas fault line caused destruction and distinction in California. Ray Isle offers an itinerary to explore the ...

Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day ...

A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...

The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.

Hydrology experts are calling for urgent investigations into the operation of bore-fields that access fresh groundwater on Pacific islands, including Kiribati, where rising sea levels are already ...

Around 71% of the Earth’s surface is water, encompassing vast and mysterious seas and oceans. Every day, unique discoveries unveil secrets hidden within these depths. One such revelation occurred ...

At first glance, the meeting point of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans looks like a dramatic clash between two separate bodies of water. The difference in water color, often observed in places like ...

It forms part of the global ocean 'conveyor belt' connecting the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans. The system regulates Earth's climate and pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe. But ...

The narrative requirements, for instance, demand that a city not “discharge” pollutants into a “receiving water” – in this case, the Pacific Ocean – that cause a violation of water ...