In Native Hawaiians’ genealogical stories, says Solomon Kahoʻohalahala, the coral polyp is considered the oldest ancestor, ...

The U.S. has stationed warships such as aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines in the Western Pacific Ocean. The ...

During the NOAA team’s ongoing Beyond the Blue: Illuminating the Pacific expedition aboard the Okeanos Explorer, researchers ...

"Hawaii is on the frontlines of the plastic crisis, as the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre collects marine debris and delivers [it] to our shorelines—this is debris from countries across the Pacific, ...

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake shook Anchorage, Alaska, just after midnight local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Three miles down, cameras glimpsed the shattered interior of the USS Yorktown, sunk in the Pacific Ocean in the 1942 Battle ...

Novelist Richard Powers has written another love letter to the planet—in this case, the 99 percent of Earth’s biosphere that ...

In this installment of our Nature Vs. Nurture series, Roddy Scheer roughs it and then lives it up on California's Big Sur coast.

It was history. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series ...

Our understanding of our own planet is still changing and a relatively new theory about how plate tectonics works.

The show followed a group of characters after they survived a disastrous plane crash and worked to survive on a mysterious ...

Ocean Investments, a Hawaii affiliate of Kyoto-based Takami Corp., plans to sell the e restaurants and wedding services at 53 ...