Eight million tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year. What it's done to this island is a stark warning.

The landfill closed in 1978. The garbage, 100 feet deep in some places, was covered with dirt roughly 4 feet thick. A barrier ...

Dozens of water-harvesting pods are set to be deployed along the sea floor off the coast of California as the United States ramps up its first subsea desalination project. The effort is expected to ...

Join me as I take a flight across the Pacific Ocean on the Island Hopper, experiencing 24 hours on a Boeing 737. The flight's cost was $2018.54 / £1668.99, with an average price of $0.33 per mile.

Waters in the northern Pacific Ocean naturally cycle between patterns of cool and warm temperatures every few decades. But hundreds of simulations from climate models suggest human-caused warming may ...

HONOLULU — Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again, after a judge in Hawaii sided this week with environmentalists challenging a ...

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Tropical Storm Henriette rapidly strengthened into a hurricane Sunday in the central Pacific Ocean with further strengthening expected, but it poses no threat to land, the National ...

HOUSTON—NASA’s Crew-10 SpaceX Dragon capsule Endurance descended safely under parachute into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on Aug. 9, successfully ending a 148-day mission to the ...

More than a decade after a mysterious sickness began killing billions of sea stars off the Pacific Coast, scientists say they've identified the bacteria that causes the deadly disease. A team of at ...

Volunteers, including two families of beachgoers, responded to a hotline report of a 1,150-pound net mass on Kahili Beach on Kauai on April 10. They pulled it out of the ocean before removal. While ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island Business Improvement Districts are preparing for New York City’s new trash containerization rules, but without increasing costs to their members, according to local ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...