Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The blob is back, and no, I am not talking about the movies about the alien blob monsters. I am talking about the Pacific “Blob”, ...

As demand for critical metals grows, scientists have taken a rare, close look at life on the deep Pacific seabed where mining may soon begin. Over five years and 160 days at sea, researchers ...

NASA has taken images of an incredible phytoplankton display around the Chatham Islands where warm and colder water converge to create a unique environment.

Far below the waves of the Pacific, scientists are uncovering a riot of life just as industrial machines line up to scrape the seabed for metals. Hundreds of newly described animals, from delicate ...

It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s becoming something else. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where no ...

When compared with historical samples, corals show that the Salish Sea and California Current System are acidifying faster than anticipated because of greenhouse gas emissions. Models indicate that at ...