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.

Nan Shepard’s classic of nature writing and memoir is an education in how to reorient one's attention to a landscape and its ...

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 ...

Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of ...

The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.

PAITA, Peru, March 15 (Reuters) - A Peruvian fisherman who spent 95 days lost in the Pacific Ocean, eating roaches, birds and sea turtles to survive, is returning home to his family. Maximo Napa ...

However, 10 days into his trip, the 61-year-old fisherman strayed off course due to bad weather, sending his boat drifting aimlessly into the vast Pacific Ocean. When Napa Castro did not return ...

Surging tropical activity in the South Pacific Ocean produced a relatively rare occurrence Tuesday: three named tropical cyclones active at the same time: Alfred, Rae and Seru. It’s the first ...