On an otherwise unassuming day, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off the southwestern coast of New Zealand's South Island, underscoring the complex seismic activity that characterizes this region.

After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...

NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often ...

The Atlantic Beach Council voted unanimously to pay a local contractor $97,000 to bulldoze sand away from the seawall and ...

Lava from Hawaii's most active volcano created fountains that reached 700 feet Thursday during the latest episode of an ...

Researchers were in a remote region of the Bellingshausen Sea on a different expedition when the iceberg calved, giving them a chance to change course and explore a region never before accessible to ...

Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth's surface as powerfully as floods and storms. These animals effectively act as landscape engineers, reorganizing soils and ...

VANCOUVER - Nearly half of the landslides, debris flows and washouts that occurred during British Columbia’s atmospheric river disaster in November 2021 originated in areas that had been logged ...

Widespread ocean pollution threatens the health of more than 3 billion people, international study led by Boston College researchers shows Ocean pollution is widespread and getting worse, and when ...

After all the planning and stress of a wedding, many newlyweds look forward to celebrating their union by taking the trip of ...