Rising mountain peaks and sharp rock formations cover the ocean floor, with corals, sponges, fish, and tons of sea creatures ...

The Santa Ana winds tend to cause the same corridors to burn over and over again. Experts say the region needs to adapt.

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already ...

The suckers are also packed with sensory receptors that allow the octopus to taste and smell things that they touch—like combining a hand with a tongue and a nose. The researchers believe the ...

For almost half a century, the Philippines served as the linchpin of American military power in Asia. During the height of the Vietnam war, the sprawling Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base on ...

"That might be offsetting some of the negative issues that have been long debated." Across the Pacific Ocean in Tonga's capital, Nuku'alofa, Amelia Taufapasa sells carefully-made handicrafts for a ...

A United States aircraft carrier returned to the South China Sea this week, following a five-day visit to Malaysia, while a Chinese "flattop" conducted a new round of sea trials. USS Carl Vinson ...

Now, a growing group of scientists and companies say they’ve found a way to increase that storage capacity by tweaking ocean water chemistry ... the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor ... of measurements from NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, launched in ...

Kiribati, an island nation consisting of 32 atolls in the Pacific Ocean, is 20 to 22 hours ahead ... visible on most map projections in the southern half of the Pacific. This is because two ...

Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) on Aug. 9, 2024. US Navy Photo Several European nations conducted operational deployments to the Western Pacific this year, combining national strategies, international ...