Sarcastic fringeheads are small yet mighty saltwater fish found in the Pacific Ocean. Known for their massive jaws and mouths ...

The U.S. Seventh Fleet's mission is to provide operational control and planning for its forces in the Pacific and Indian ...

A Canadian company has announced that its U.S. subsidiary has submitted applications to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to mine the seafloor ...

A new company is testing deep sea desalination technology that can turn saltwater to drinking water without the harmful ...

In Native Hawaiians’ genealogical stories, says Solomon Kahoʻohalahala, the coral polyp is considered the oldest ancestor, ...

The U.S. has stationed warships such as aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines in the Western Pacific Ocean. The ...

During the NOAA team’s ongoing Beyond the Blue: Illuminating the Pacific expedition aboard the Okeanos Explorer, researchers ...

Three miles down, cameras glimpsed the shattered interior of the USS Yorktown, sunk in the Pacific Ocean in the 1942 Battle ...

Novelist Richard Powers has written another love letter to the planet—in this case, the 99 percent of Earth’s biosphere that ...

In this installment of our Nature Vs. Nurture series, Roddy Scheer roughs it and then lives it up on California's Big Sur coast.

It was history. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series ...

Our understanding of our own planet is still changing and a relatively new theory about how plate tectonics works.