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(KTVZ) -- Forty days, 22 hours and 14 minutes - that’s how long it took Bend native Jennifer Hofer, her sister Kristen and two teammates to row 2,800 miles across the Pacific Ocean, from ...

While the area is still dealing with the Palisades Fire in the short term, the long-term impacts will also be sharp and numerous, particularly to local ocean health. Due to the fires raging across ...

The discovery even led the ETH Zurich announcement to bluntly ask, “Is there a lost world beneath the Pacific Ocean?” Their locations below large water sources — including the western ...

Professor of Ocean and Climate Dynamics, Georgia Institute of Technology The oceans are heating up as the planet warms. This past year, 2024, was the warmest ever measured for the global ocean ...

Tommaso Santambrogio’s film, which stakes out territory in both truth and fantasy, uses nonactors to tell intertwining stories set in contemporary Cuba. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ...

Crewsaver, a leader in high-performance survival technology, has launched the ErgoFit 290N lifejacket for offshore and ocean sailing. The ErgoFit 290N integrates the best features from Crewsaver’s ...

Twenty-three metres below the surface of Barkley Sound, a sea sponge named Belinda is telling researchers about changing ocean conditions. “Honestly, it was very opportunistic,” Dominica ...

With hundreds of firefighters, from Los Angeles and Orange County, working the front lines of the Palisades fire, tanker planes were seen scooping ocean water to fight the blaze.

The two oceans have been separated for some three million years, ever since the isthmus of Panama rose out of the water and split them. The canal cut a path through the continent, yet for decades ...

Ocean sciences span the physics, chemistry, and biology of marine systems. The field encompasses ocean circulation, energy dissipation, marine biology, ecology, biogeochemical cycles, water mass ...

The Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte is reeling from Cyclone Chido, the most intense storm to hit the French territory in 90 years, according to officials. At least 22 people have been killed ...