Soft corals, which are members of the class Octocorallia, are major components of marine ecosystems, including coral reefs.

Storm behavior: Pacific storms often move westward into open ocean, posing less risk to land, whereas Atlantic storms are more likely to threaten the U.S., Caribbean or Central America.

The Chautauqua movement came to Pacific Palisades a century ago with a vision of healthy living. Much of the settlement has been lost to time, but some buildings managed to survive, even through ...

A shaky truce between Israel and Iran, announced after U.S. attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, appeared to be holding. By Farnaz Fassihi David E. Sanger and Aaron Boxerman A fragile cease-fire ...

There are a number of startups racing to map the ocean in greater detail, but the latest to snag fresh funding is Bedrock Ocean, which recently closed a $25 million Series A-2 round led by Primary ...

In Brief The April 2025 trilateral agreement between India, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates to develop Trincomalee's energy hub represents a strategic counterweight to China's expanding Indian ...

The Republic of the Marshall Islands was once used by the United States as a convenient place to explode nuclear bombs, with little regard for local interests. But these days, the expectations of the ...

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? Covering about 63 million square miles (163 million square ...

Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave.

A salvage team is en route to a cargo ship carrying almost 3,000 vehicles that was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean after a fire broke out earlier this week off Alaska ’s Aleutian Islands. The 600 ...

A small plane headed from San Diego to Phoenix with six people on board crashed in the Pacific Ocean. All six passengers were presumed dead. Their names have not been released, as of June 9.