The ashes were lost alongside a collection of cannabis plant matter and seeds donated by a citizen science project seeking to ...

The Pacific Islands were well represented at the conference, with the Federated States of Micronesia, French Polynesia, Fiji, ...

Helga Huntley, Ph.D., helped develop the mathematical framework for evaluating the environmental impacts of removing plastic waste from the Pacific Ocean.

A new assessment finds that the world’s oceans crossed the safe threshold for acidification in 2020, breaching a key planetary boundary and posing serious threats to marine life. Ocean ...

Pacific ideas, knowledge, and values are such stars — ancient tools that our people want to share with the world. We can use both stars and lighthouses in navigating our future.

"The ocean has boundaries that are invisible to us but known to all sorts of microbes and animals that live there," said Hawco. "The North Pacific Transition Zone is one of these boundaries.

When two bodies of water with distinct characteristics converge, they can flow side by side without immediately blending, creating a visible boundary.

Editor’s note: This is an edited excerpt from “Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific,” by Coll Thrush (University of Washington Press, $29.95).

The monument was created by President George W. Bush in 2009 and expanded by President Obama to nearly 500,000 square miles in the central Pacific Ocean.

The plate is being pulled apart The study highlights a powerful geological force in action. The Pacific Plate, which makes up most of the Pacific Ocean floor, is slowly moving west.

Trump said he will allow U.S.-flagged vessels to fish within 50 to 200 nautical miles of the landward boundaries of the monument, which covers some 490,000 square miles of open ocean, coral reef ...