Recent News Headlines : Pacific Ocean
THIS RUSSIAN CITY SAYS: 'DON'T CALL US SIBERIA'
Yekaterinburg explains the difference between Urals and Siberian culture... READ MORE›
KAHNAWAKE LAYS ITS LAST WW II VET TO REST
Patton was the community's last surviving World War II veteran... READ MORE›
WITHOUT OBAMA ABES APPROACH TO US-JAPAN TIES MAY BE TESTED
But the alliance with the United States remains the bedrock of Japan's security, and none of its leaders are currently considering any other significant alternative... READ MORE›
CHINA DEPLOYS AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA
China claims the South China Sea as its own despite objections from neighboring countries and the United States... READ MORE›
SUPER TYPHOON HEADS FOR CHRISTMAS DAY BLOW TO PHILIPPINES
A powerful typhoon was heading for a Christmas Day collision with the central Philippines... READ MORE›
WHAT WILL BE THE BIG ENVIRONMENT EVENTS IN 2017?
The global climate debate will be dominated by whether the president-elect Donald Trump withdraws the US from the Paris global agreement to reduce emissions... READ MORE›
CHINAA??S FIRST AIRCRAFT CARRIER HEADS FOR WESTERN PACIFIC
BEIJING -- China's first aircraft carrier has set off for the Western Pacific for an open-sea training exercise, the Defense Ministry said... READ MORE›
SUPER TYPHOON HEADS FOR CHRISTMAS DAY BLOW TO PHILIPPINES
A powerful typhoon was heading for a Christmas Day collision with the central Philippines... READ MORE›
JAPAN IN RECORD MILITARY SPENDING AMID CHINESE TENSIONS
Rising tension with China over disputed islands in the East China Sea has led to Japan's coastguard budget being raised to 210bn yen 1.8bn next year... READ MORE›
B.C. WOMAN TRIES TO SMUGGLE HER CAT INTO NEW ZEALAND
He said foreign cats could bring with them ticks and diseases that aren't present in New Zealand... READ MORE›
ARCTIC OUTBREAK, THEN LA NINA WARMING IN NORTH AMERICA
With holes in the Arctic Sea ice weakening, the jet stream - a pool of freezing air that formed near the North Pole... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS DRILLING FOR WORLD'S OLDEST ICE
Australian scientists are joining other countries, including the UK, in a search to find the oldest ice on earth, deep beneath Antarctica... READ MORE›
HOW CANADIAN CHRISTMAS TREES END UP ALL OVER THE WORLD
It was all very strange, especially since Loewen is in the business of selling Christmas trees... READ MORE›
HENRY HEIMLICH, CREATOR OF LIFE-SAVING MANOEUVRE, DIES AGED 96
Dr Heimlich, originally from Wilmington, Delaware, estimated the manoeuvre had saved the lives of thousands of choking victims in the United States alone... READ MORE›
NO DAMAGE AFTER POWERFUL QUAKE HITS OFF PAPUA NEW GUINEA
A very strong earthquake has struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea, and a tsunami threat has been issued to areas near the epicenter... READ MORE›
POWERFUL QUAKE HITS OFF PAPUA NEW GUINEA; NO DAMAGE REPORTED
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was a threat of a tsunami in Papua New Guinea and nearby areas... READ MORE›
CHINA PUTS NEW WEAPONS ON SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLANDS, REPORT SAYS
Harry Harris, head of the U.S. Pacific Command, suggested that the United States is ready to confront China at sea... READ MORE›
TRUMP HAS PICKED A DANGEROUS FIGHT WITH CHINA
For devaluing their currency and building a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea... READ MORE›
JAPAN DENIES CHINESE CLAIM OF DANGEROUS FIGHTER-JET CONDUCT
The uninhabited Senkaku islands are controlled by Japan but also claimed by China, which calls them the Diaoyu... READ MORE›
HUGE QUAKE HITS SOLOMON ISLANDS
A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands early on Friday and a tsunami warning for the South Pacific was later lifted... READ MORE›
6.5 MAGNITUDE QUAKE IN OCEAN OFF CALIFORNIA COAST
The area experienced a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in 1992 that left 95 people injured and caused millions of dollars in damage, according to the USGS... READ MORE›
TSUNAMI WARNINGS AFTER 7.8 QUAKE STRIKES OFF SOLOMON ISLANDS' COAST
Another earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit 66km west of Kirakira, Solomon Islands, according to USGS... READ MORE›
ANCIENT WATER CHANNELS AND SEA ICE
The Great Salt Lake is the largest water body in the US after the Great Lakes... READ MORE›
IN TRUMP'S SHADOW, AUSTRALIA SEES CHINA PAVE PATH ON TRADE
Australian farmers struggle to see good in china trade deal... READ MORE›
UNMANNED RUSSIAN CARGO SHIP BURNS UP SECONDS AFTER LAUNCH TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who launched to the ISS for a six-month mission in November, confirmed that the ISS crew had enough supplies... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN PROGRESS CARGO ORBITER BOUND FOR ISS BREAKS UP OVER SIBERIA
An unmanned Russian cargo spaceship heading to the International Space Station broke up in the atmosphere over Siberia on Thursday due to an unspecified ma... READ MORE›
HURRICANE OTTO LEAVES AT LEAST 9 DEAD IN COSTA RICA
People leave their home in the 'El Canal' neighbourhood of Bluefields, Nicaragua... READ MORE›
OVER 1,000 AFRICAN SKULLS IN BERLIN ARE A REMINDER OF EUROPE'S DARK COLONIAL HISTORY
According to Deutsche Welle, ARD identified about 1,000 skulls that originated from what is now Rwanda and about 60 from Tanzania... READ MORE›
SIBERIAN SNOW THEORY POINTS TO AN EARLY AND COLD WINTER IN U.S.
Climate change melts ice in the Arctic Ocean, resulting in more moisture in the atmosphere... READ MORE›
EL SALVADOR ISSUES TSUNAMI ALERT AFTER 7.2 OFFSHORE QUAKE
A step Costa Rica had already taken ahead of Hurricane Otto... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Pacific Ocean
EARTHQUAKE JOLTS NEW ZEALAND; TSUNAMI WARNING ISSUED
New Zealand emergency services warned that a tsunami was possible and told people near the coast of the South Island to move to higher ground... READ MORE›
STRONGEST HURRICANE ON RECORD HEADS FOR MEXICO
At 8 a.m., Hurricane Patricia was 145 miles southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, moving to the north-northwest at 12 mph, the Hurricane Center said... READ MORE›
CHINAS GLOBAL DESIRES LOANS AND STRINGS ATTACHED
Few of the Chinese workers speak Spanish, and they live separately from their Ecuadorean counterparts... READ MORE›
GERMANY DAUNTED BY GREAT EXPECTATIONS AS OBAMA PASSES BATON TO MERKEL
Some fear Germany may struggle to assume America's status as torchbearer for liberal democracy after Trump victory in US... READ MORE›
WHALING NATIONS BLOCK SOUTH ATLANTIC SANCTUARY PLANS
Japan and other pro-whaling nations have defeated a proposal to create an sanctuary for whales in the South Atlantic... READ MORE›
THE GREAT BARRIER REEF: A CATASTROPHE LAID BARE
Climate change is the greatest threat facing the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs around the world... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS SAY A DRAMATIC WORLDWIDE CORAL BLEACHING EVENT IS NOW UNDERWAY
Coral reefs are expected to see ocean temperatures that can lead to bleaching sometime this year... READ MORE›
PACIFIC ISLANDS MAKE LAST-DITCH PLEA TO WORLD BEFORE PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE TALKS
Children here in the Pacific talk about climate change like children elsewhere talk about school or TV... READ MORE›
WORLD'S DEEPEST FISH FOUND IN PACIFIC OCEAN'S MARIANA TRENCH
Video World's deepest fish found in Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench... READ MORE›
CHINA MAY GIVE FILIPINO FISHERMEN ACCESS TO SCARBOROUGH
China has overlapping claims in the South China Sea with Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam... READ MORE›
CLIMATE-RELATED DEATH OF CORAL AROUND WORLD ALARMS SCIENTISTS
The damage off Kiritimati is part of a mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world, only the third on record and possibly the worst ever... READ MORE›
TSUNAMI WARNING ISSUED AFTER HUGE EARTHQUAKE STRIKES NEW ZEALAND
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake has struck in the south island of New Zealand... READ MORE›
AMELIA EARHART DIDN'T DIE IN A PLANE CRASH, INVESTIGATOR SAYS. THIS IS HIS THEORY.
Some of that support comes from Earhart's radio signals seeking help, which investigators say most likely emanated from an area near Gardner Island, Gillespie said... READ MORE›
OBAMA, ON HISTORIC MIDWAY ISLAND, TOUTS HIS CONSERVATION EFFORTS
Standing on a pristine beach on Midway Island, Obama recognized both the historical and ecological significance of the six-mile-long atoll northwest of Hawaii... READ MORE›
U.S.A. VS. JAPAN: WOMEN'S WORLD CUP FINAL 2015
It is the third time the United States has won the Women's World Cup and the first since 1999... READ MORE›
THE WORLD'S LONELIEST WHALE MAY NOT BE ALONE AFTER ALL
View image of Blue whales can sing for hours Credit Nature Production NPL The story begins in 1989... READ MORE›
APRIL BREAKS GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RECORD, MARKING SEVEN MONTHS OF NEW HIGHS
They've triggered the third recorded global coral bleaching, and in Australia 93 percent of the reefs have been affected by bleaching along the 2,300km Great Barrier Reef... READ MORE›
DEVASTATED VANUATU STARTS TO GET AID
Aid from Australia and New Zealand has begun to reach the island... READ MORE›
WORLD'S OLDEST WILD BIRD RETURNS TO SHORE TO LAY EGG AT AGE OF 64
Wisdom left soon after mating but we expect her back any day now to lay her egg, said Bret Wolfe, deputy refuge manager... READ MORE›
ANOTHER AERIAL CLOSE CALL AS RUSSIAN JET BARREL-ROLLS OVER U.S. AIRCRAFT
In October, U.S. Navy jets intercepted two Russian Tu-142 aircraft that were flying near the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in the Pacific Ocean... READ MORE›
CLIMATE SCIENTISTS SAY 2015 ON TRACK TO BE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD
Earth has broken monthly heat records 25 times since the year 2000 but hasn't broken a monthly cold record since 1916... READ MORE›
SUPERCARRIER FORD TO JOIN NAVY FLEET IN SEPTEMBER
Hide Caption 23 of 29 29 photos U.S. aircraft carriers The Essex-class USS Franklin burns after being hit by a Japanese dive bomber in 1945... READ MORE›
CHINA AIR FORCE HOLDS DRILLS NEAR JAPANESE ISLANDS
Patrols launched to monitor foreign military aircraft flying over the East China Sea air defence identification zone... READ MORE›
THE WORLD'S 'RAREST' CREATURE HAS JUST BEEN SEEN FOR ONLY THE THIRD TIME EVER
Peter Ward a professor of biology at the University of Washington in the US first saw Allonautilus scrobiculatus in 1984... READ MORE›
TESTICLE-MUNCHING FISH SPECIES FOUND IN US LAKE
They are almost identical to the piranha you couldn't even tell from the outside he explained after the Scandinavian pacu sighting... READ MORE›
CHINA, RUSSIA TO PUSH FOR FREE-TRADE AREA IN ASIA-PACIFIC
President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin met during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in the South American city... READ MORE›
CHINA AND JAPAN IN ICE-BREAKER TALKS
Awkward Relations between China and Japan have long been soured by a row over islands in the East China Sea... READ MORE›
2 DEGREES CELSIUS: A CRITICAL NUMBER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
Framework Convention on Climate Change said in a statement... READ MORE›
CHINA CONDEMNS U.S. WARSHIP'S ROUTE IN SOUTH CHINA SEA
China claims territorial sovereignty to virtually all of the South China Sea, which includes some of the world's busiest trade routes... READ MORE›
SOLAR IMPULSE LANDS IN HAWAII AFTER LONGEST NON-STOP SOLO FLIGHT IN HISTORY
Veteran pilot tested to the limit of endurance on record-breaking solar-powered flight across the Pacific, on the eighth leg of round-the-world journey... READ MORE›
Related News Headlines : Pacific Ocean
CALIFORNIA POLITICIAN LIKES CLIMATE CHANGE BECAUSE 'OUR ENEMIES' LIVE IN HOT PLACES
Randy Voepel is a big fan of climate change because America's enemies are on the equator and a warmer climate will make their lives worse... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER 500 SEEPING METHANE VENTS OFF U.S. WEST COAST
Scientists have found 500 seabed vents bubbling methane into the Pacific Ocean off the United States, roughly doubling the number of known U.S. seeps of th... READ MORE›
OBAMA CREATES AMERICA'S FIRST PROTECTED AREA IN ATLANTIC
Creating the Atlantic Ocean's first marine national monument is a needed response to dangerous climate change, oceanic dead zones and unsustainable fishing... READ MORE›
OBAMA'S OFFSHORE DRILLING PUTS WHALES AND DOLPHINS IN PERIL, GROUPS WARN
On Wednesday, leases for oil and gas exploration across 23.8m acres of the Gulf of Mexico will be auctioned off to fossil fuel companies... READ MORE›
THE WORLD'S CLOUDS ARE IN DIFFERENT PLACES THAN THEY WERE 30 YEARS AGO
Not just one but both of these changes to clouds are positive feedbacks to climate change -- tending to make warming worse... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE MAY PUT UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES UNDERWATER
The researchers calculated the regional sea level at different World Heritage Sites 2,000 years from now for different average global temperatures... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP INSISTS CLIMATE CHANGE IS A 'HOAX'... BUT ARGUES SEA WALL NEEDED TO PROTECT DOONBEG FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
The Pentagon describes climate change as an urgent and growing threat to our national security ... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA TO LAY OFF LEADING SCIENTIST ON SEA LEVELS
Dr. Church's work studying sea levels has provided important keys to understanding climate change... READ MORE›
HEADLINES 'EXAGGERATED' CLIMATE LINK TO SINKING OF PACIFIC ISLANDS
The major misunderstanding stems from the conflation of sea-level rise with climate change... READ MORE›
TOHOKU TSUNAMI DEBRIS, SOME WITH INVASIVE LIFE, STILL TURNING UP ON NORTH AMERICAN WEST COAST
Five years later, debris is still washing up, and scientists have begun to explore whether the invasive species have become established in North America... READ MORE›
WINDS OF CLIMATE CHANGE WILL MAKE TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHTS LONGER, STUDY SHOWS
Climate change is increasing the speed of the jet stream, a strong high-altitude wind that blows west to east across the Atlantic... READ MORE›