Avila Beach remains one of California’s best-kept coastal secrets, a charming enclave along the Central Coast where life moves at a pace dictated by tides rather than traffic lights.

Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

The forward deployment of warships marks Washington's commitment to maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific region, the Navy ...

Satellite imagery can help determine the strength, size and cohesion of a storm. The stronger a storm becomes, the more ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

There’s a stretch of California highway where the mountains plunge dramatically into the sea, where every curve reveals a vista more breathtaking than the last, and where you’ll find yourself ...

Tropical Storm Flossie is expected to continue to strengthen in the Pacific Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said.

The National Hurricane Center said June 26 a system in the Pacific Ocean could become a tropical depression in the coming ...

The Trump administration is considering a first-of-its kind mining project at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. But deep-sea mining has raised major environmental questions.

A NASA sensor is able to detect signs of sewage contamination in the Pacific Ocean, a new study has concluded. The authors of ...

A flurry of tropical cyclone activity over the past two weeks in the eastern Pacific Ocean just off the west coast of Mexico has produced three named storms so far — with more storms expected ...

For nearly five decades, more than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped in the icy depths of the northeast ...