April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the colossal Japanese battleship Yamato, a maritime behemoth, set sail for ...

PACIFIC, Wash. — Hundreds of neighbors in the King County city of Pacific were jolted out of bed early Tuesday as messages telling them to evacuate immediately blared through the area. “Water just ...

The US military conducted strikes against three alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing 8 people, according to US Southern Command. “On Dec. 15, at the direction ...

As the strategic rivalry between China and the United States intensifies across the Indo-Pacific, the Taiwan Strait is often seen as the key flash point. Yet whether the regional balance holds or tips ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

A marine heat wave spanning much of the North Pacific Ocean is already influencing the weather in North America and is poised to make its mark on winter. The unusually warm ocean water, coined “the ...

Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active regions that encircle the Pacific Ocean. By Victoria Kim Hundreds of millions of ...

Union Pacific said on Tuesday it would buy smaller rival Norfolk Southern in an $85 billion deal to create the first U.S. coast-to-coast freight rail operator and reshape the movement of goods from ...

Photographs have been circulating online for years that supposedly depict where the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet. In the photographs, there is a clearly visible line between the two, and the water ...