Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The blob is back, and no, I am not talking about the movies about the alien blob monsters. I am talking about the Pacific "Blob", ...

Fausto was a tropical storm in the North Pacific Ocean early Monday Hawaii time, the National Hurricane Center said in its ...

A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern Japan, offering rare insights into how ocean currents in the North Pacific ...

According to a new study, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has supplied the durable surfaces needed for an accidental ...

Melting and breaking icebergs in the far-off northeastern Pacific Ocean can weaken a massive current system in the Atlantic ...

A marine heat wave spanning much of the North Pacific Ocean is already influencing the weather in North America and is poised to make its mark on winter. The unusually warm ocean water, coined “the ...

In Science of The Total Environment, researchers demonstrate the broad distribution of particulate thiols in the western North Pacific and show that their main source is marine phytoplankton. The ...

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The Pacific Ocean hosts a complex network of currents that redistribute heat, nutrients and biogeochemical tracers on seasonal to multi-decadal timescales. Prominent features include the North ...

Woodeltia sorapuchiensis gen. et sp. nov. A newly described species from early-Miocene Japan that later adapted to cold Pliocene environments in Hokkaido, providing insights into the genus’s ...