Hawai’i was briefly under the threat of a possible tsunami — based on available data being investigated by forecasters in ...

As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet. Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins.

The Polynesian people, inhabiting the islands in the Pacific Ocean, ... All the more impressive is that these great distances were travelled without so much as a compass, sextant, or a map.

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

A "community" has been uncovered in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Researchers have found a thriving ecosystem of animal life in an unlikely place: beneath hydrothermal vents under the seafloor ...

So, when the already warming oceans get an additional kick from natural, oscillating climate patterns, like the warm El Niño phase in the Pacific Ocean, ocean temperatures reach levels far warmer ...