President Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and ...

Covering more area than all the continents combined, the Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest body of water on Earth. Its ...

The Pacific is the largest and the deepest ocean on our planet, stretching over 60 million square miles; that's close to 30% of Earth's entire surface area. The ocean connects the continents of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

As the world cruises through spring, meteorologists and climatologists are closely watching ever-changing water temperatures in the Eastern and Central Pacific Ocean to determine the status of the ...

As the world cruises through spring, meteorologists and climatologists are closely watching ever-changing water temperatures in the Eastern and Central Pacific Ocean to determine the status of the El ...

That’s how we get enormous build-ups like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a giant collection of plastic pollution in the ocean that is roughly twice the size of Texas. As the founder and CEO of The ...

Ding Haitao/Xinhua via Getty Images China’s involvement across the Indo-Pacific in March 2025 ranged ... in the South China Sea and Indian Ocean.

MOST Pacific island countries got off relatively lightly with last week’s Trump “reciprocal” tariff announcement. Ten were given tariffs of 10%, the minimum handed out. (Timor-Leste also got a 10% ...

forestalling Kenya’s plans for establishing a new regional trade hub on the Indian Ocean. For decades, Kenya has planned a $25 billion economic corridor across its impoverished north ...