Weather systems that affect the West Coast of the United States often have their origins in the northern Pacific Ocean. This is because the jet stream usually flows in a general west-to-east fashion.

A research expedition in the Tonga Trench filmed a Pacific sleeper shark, a slow-moving, opportunistic predator rarely seen ...

When Stanford researchers began tracking a group of Loggerhead Sea Turtles, they were trying to answer a simple question about their migration pattern. Now, they've wound up generating far bigger ...

The definition: An atmospheric river (AR) is a long plume of moisture that stretches from the tropics or subtropics into ...

President Donald Trump said Monday that he ordered the U.S. military to divert water from the Pacific Northwest to Southern ...

The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and ...

The unusual holes in the ocean didn't reveal an underwater volcano or some hydrothermal vents, but rather something remarkable.

As President Donald Trump prepares to tour wildfire damage in California, he’s zeroing in on one of his frequent targets for ...

Puget Sound might be sheltered from feeling many strong winds directly, but it’s not immune to their ripple effects. For ...

"Axial is the most active volcano in the Northeast Pacific which maybe some people don't know, because it's hidden under the ...