Despite being far from where hurricanes form in the Atlantic, the tropical Pacific Ocean has a powerful influence on weather patterns there — and around the globe. This influence is part of a ...

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

The geology of the Cascadia subduction zone has largely staved off climate-related sea-level rise in the Pacific Northwest, ...

Covering more area than all the continents combined, the Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest body of water on Earth. Its ...

But climate models have suggested that once the planet warms ... less carbon-rich water from the deep ocean rises to the surface in the tropical Pacific Ocean, which means measurements taken during ...