About 3,500 feet under the south Pacific ... depth of the ocean floor — as well as its tectonic profile, showing where Zealandia falls across tectonic-plate boundaries. The maps reveal new ...

When marine ecologist Andres Cozar Cabañas and a team of researchers completed the first ever map of ocean trash ... of plastic into the oceans. The North Pacific Garbage Patch, a loose ...

An unprecedented analysis of North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years has found that sea ice formation in coastal regions is a key driver of deep ocean circulation ...

The retreat of North America’s ice sheets in the latter years of the last ice age may have begun with “catastrophic” losses of ice into the North Pacific Ocean along the coast of modern-day ...