The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has long been described in terms of scale. In the waters between Hawaii and California, ...

La Niña has officially ended, and the tropical Pacific Ocean is now in a neutral state, meaning it’s not showing the typical patterns of either La Niña or El Niño. “Neutral conditions are expected to ...

It’s back!!! The “blob” has returned. No, not the 1958 sci-fi film of the same name starring a young Steve McQueen in his first leading role. This “blob” is the marine heatwave that now spans much of ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so big? Covering about 63 million square miles (163 million square kilometers) — ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...

Most people would be somewhat alarmed at the prospect of spending over 100 days alone with their siblings, let alone if they had to do so on a cramped boat in the middle of the ocean. But three ...

The typically unremarkable central Pacific hurricane basin saw a surprising uptick in storms in late July as both major Hurricane Iona and Tropical Storm Keli spun harmlessly far from land. "The ...

Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean accompanying global warming. Existing climate models have failed to capture this ...