Stretching from the Americas in the east to Asia and Australia in the west, and dotted with island chains from Hawaii to ...

The blob is a large-scale marine heat wave in the northern Pacific Ocean. It was first detected in 2013 and was caused by a ...

A hydrophone, or underwater microphone, is typically used to record acoustics. The Ocean Observatories Initiative, a project ...

An enormous area of the Earth’s crust has torn and slumped, dropping about 5 kilometers (3 miles). We’ve only just noticed ...

The US military killed five alleged drug smugglers in strikes against two vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean, US Defense ...

A massive heat wave is hitting the Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka to California. Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles, though they have mostly stopped short of the ...

For Ghost, a 45-pound octopus believed to be between 2 and 4 years old (the average lifespan for her species), it means ...

Beyond disrupting the ocean’s food web and fisheries, the underwater heat wave, known as “the Blob,” can alter weather on land thousands of miles away. Since May, an ever-shifting mass of overheated ...

Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles, though they have mostly stopped short of the Pacific ...

As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of ...

A recent survey by scientists at Georgia's Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary used a drop camera to study the animals ...

"At night it's pitch black down there in bad weather — the sky and sea just form a huge black mass. The most terrifying thing ...