The wild and woolly Pacific basin – fueled by a powerful El Niño – continues to spew forth tropical cyclones of all shapes and sizes.

Weather forecasters are saying this fall and winter could produce one of the strongest El Niños, or warm water pools in the eastern Pacific Ocean, since record keeping started. Just what that means

A strengthening El Niño is stirring up a dangerous mix of typhoons and hurricanes across the Pacific, fueling storms that have killed hundreds, disrupted

“The Indian Ocean is a huge heat reservoir, and it can decouple from what the Pacific Ocean is doing. The results of this study underscore the independent behavior of the Indian Ocean,” said co-author Delia Oppo, an emeritus research scholar at WHOI.

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so big? The predecessor of the Pacific Ocean was Panthalassa, or the Panthalassic Ocean, which was once Earth's only ocean. This world ...

Glover saw the whale surfacing on Wednesday while he was fishing for salmon and striped bass from a 21-foot (6.4-meter) boat, less than half the length of the animal. He shot a few videos as the whale broke the surface of the water in California's largest river, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) from its more typical home of the Pacific Ocean.

Lauren Sanchez is backing a new Bezos Earth Fund ocean conservation push as Jeff Bezos' philanthropic organization commits more than $25 million to protect 625,000 square miles of Pacific waters across five nations,

Imagine packing up radioactive waste in nearly 50,000 containers, dumping them in the middle of an ocean, and letting them sit on the seafloor for almost a quarter of a century!