Haram and her colleagues examined 105 items of plastic fished out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between November 2018 and January 2019. They identified 484 marine invertebrate organisms on ...

Topline A leak in the Pacific Ocean’s floor has scientists concerned it could fuel “the big one,” a magnitude-9.0 earthquake that would be one of the strongest earthquakes the U.S. has ever ...

Australia plans to significantly boost surveillance of Pacific Islands territorial waters, spending A$477 million ($310.72 million) on aerial patrols for illegal fishing fleets, tender documents ...

Imagery captured by the ESA's Sentinel-2 satellites on June 22, 2025, shows the Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong operating in the Philippine Sea in the Western Pacific Ocean. Copernicus What To ...