IN the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners, and huge numbers ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

As deep-sea mining interests in the Pacific ... and Mexico will endanger the biodiversity in one of the Earth's largest and least understood environments. In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean ...

Aircraft carriers deployed by the United States and its NATO ally France made port calls in the Western Pacific Ocean this week, visiting South Korea and Singapore, respectively. The United States ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Midway Atoll is just about the ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world. Just how big is it? Using the map below, click ...

A thin stretch of the eastern Pacific Ocean has been getting colder for the past 30 years, defying the broad global trend and baffling scientists. The surprising and rapid rise in ocean ...