You may have noticed that most plane routes avoid flying directly over the Pacific Ocean, and the reasoning behind that ...

While Tropical Storm Bertha continues to spin in the Gulf, Hurricane Fausto is churning up rough seas in the Pacific, and could impact Hawaii next week, forecasters said.

The Pacific Ocean is the largest feature on Earth's surface. It is also, geologically speaking, slowly disappearing.

Tropical Storm Genevieve is forecast to intensify to major hurricane strength by Sunday night, becoming the first storm to do so this year in either the Atlantic or east Pacific Ocean.

A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the Mexico-Guatemala coast in the Pacific Ocean on Friday, being felt as far as El Salvador.

Polynesian cultures have a remarkable navigational tradition. It stands as a testament to human ingenuity and an intimate understanding of nature. Where Western cultures developed maps and tools to ...

Hundreds of millions of years from now, Earth will look unrecognizable as the globe’s largest ocean vanishes, and researchers say the continent “Amasia” will form from the collision of North America ...

A new study has revealed significant acceleration in the upper-ocean circulation of the equatorial Pacific over the past 30 years. This acceleration is primarily driven by intensified atmospheric ...

Some 1,400 kilometers off the coast of Chile, rare deep-sea creatures drift along a garden of sponges and corals that grow along the flanks of a 3,100-meter-tall undersea mountain. A monthlong survey ...

See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Scientists are pretty good at recognizing marine heat waves: A global network of thousands of oceanic buoys and orbiting satellites ...