President Trump’s latest order lifts long-standing restrictions on fishing in one of the world’s most pristine marine ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 10 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of April 18.

The U.S. Marine Corps' Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, or NMESIS, will conduct simulated fires missions in the Luzon Strait.

Members of the Trump administration signaled that Papahānaumokuākea, the protected area around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, could be next.

Why might the U.S. be interested in deep-sea mining, and what are the environmental risks? Here's what you need to know.

A United States aircraft carrier was leaving the Western Pacific Ocean on a redeployment order ... in large-scale drills near the self-ruled island of Taiwan, staging a show of force to the ...

A major earthquake has rattled Tonga, an archipelago nation in the South Pacific Ocean that comprises some 170 islands. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the 7.0 magnitude quake struck roughly ...

Lavers, who is based in Tasmania, Australia, first saw the island's severe pollution problem by taking a virtual tour on Google Maps ... of the South Pacific Gyre, an ocean current that sweeps ...

The find came during a recent expedition to map ... Cook Islands sit atop a volcanic trail formed millions of years ago. As the Pacific plate moved over a fixed heat source deep in the Earth, known as ...

Louisa Castledine of Ocean Ancestors ... The seabed of the Cook Islands is made mostly of rocks formed from undersea volcanoes of different kinds. "When we map the seabed in some detail, we discover a ...

See All Key Ideas Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California ... conditions in the northern Pacific Ocean to fish abundance in its deep twilight zone ...

As wanderlust drives us toward increasingly off-the-beaten-path destinations, the number of passengers traveling on ...