Plastic flows across the Pacific with no apparent speed. Some fragments have been moving for years, thinning and softening as ...

Discover Point Nemo, Earth's most isolated location, where the nearest humans are often astronauts in space, not on land.

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

Winter storms in the North Pacific are moving north, reshaping rainfall, snowpack, and wildfire risk across the western ...

Plastic waste in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is no longer just pollution; it's a home now. Scientists have found marine ...

Explore the farthest point on Earth from land, uncovering its location, scientific importance, extreme isolation, and ...

While many Americans and Europeans say the U.S. doesn’t need to own Greenland to bolster security, the island does play a big ...

Canada has a history of ocean leadership, from helping draft the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea to negotiating the Fish ...

In order to understand the massive changes afoot in the warming polar regions, oceanographer Allison Fong is hunting for the ...

An ambitious research programme in northwestern pacific is striving to understand the many facets of the ocean — and the ways they are responding to human impacts — like never before. The sheer ...

As the Earth warms, new shipping routes from one side of the globe to the other are opening around Greenland, making the vast ...

It's been nearly four years since a massive volcanic explosion rocked the Pacific nation of Tonga. The eruption created a ...