The tropical island of Upolu is about as far as it is humanly possible to travel from Abu Dhabi. Deep in the Pacific Ocean and part of Samoa, the island is more than 17,000 kilometres from the capital ...

Raw sewage from Mexico has poured into Southern California for decades, polluting the Pacific, closing beaches and sickening ...

A fiery mystery has puzzled geologists for decades: where did the lava fueling one of Earth’s largest volcanic events come from? A new study may finally have the answer. Scientists have long believed ...

Atlantic hurricane season approaches, unusually cool sea surface temperatures, in the neighborhood of 2 °F below last year’s ...

The Tasman Sea's winter temperatures can influence heat flow to the Antarctic Peninsula through atmospheric ripple effects.

Authorities Friday publicly identified the 76-year-old East Coast man killed when the car he was driving crashed off a ...

A 76-year-old man who died after his car went off the side of a La Jolla cliff and into the Pacific Ocean earlier this week has been identified.

Since late February, more than 800 poisoned animals have been reported in just Los Angeles and Orange counties.

Pacific nations must look to themselves and their neighbors – particularly those in Southeast Asia – to secure the Blue ...

A 7.4 magnitude earthquake strikes off the southern coasts of Chile and Argentina, the United States Geological Survey says.

The Green Bay Botanical Garden unveiled a unique exhibit to encourage saving our planet’s water: Animal sculptures made of trash and debris from the Pacific ...