An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

Seismic tremors reveal a shallow fragment of ancient tectonic plate beneath Northern California, helping explain damaging ...

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

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

It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s ...

Vast swirls of color appear nearly every summer in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaiʻi, and for years, the origins of these massive blooms of photosynthetic microbes remained a mystery. That was until ...

Large phytoplankton blooms north of the Hawaiian Islands have been seen in satellite imagery as vast swirls of color nearly every summer, but their origin and ecosystem dynamics have remained ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, long known as a vast expanse of plastic waste, is now home to an unexpected and thriving marine ecosystem. Recent research has uncovered that the debris accumulating ...

SYDNEY, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Five Chinese research vessels, including ships used for space and missile tracking and underwater mapping, were active in the northwest Pacific last month, as the United ...

Bus bays are taking shape as seen in a recent bird’s eye view from above the new downtown Santa Cruz Metro Center under construction along Front Street. The project, part of the larger Pacific Station ...