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Tuvalu, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean, is planning to evacuate all of its over 11,000 inhabitants, due to rising sea levels.

An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

South Carolina-based ocean exploration company Deep Sea Vision claims to have found the aircraft of American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart.

Scientists Say They’ve Finally Found the Wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s Plane

By Victor Tangermann

Terrifying footage circulating on social media shows a massive rogue wave hitting a US military base in the Marshall Islands.

Video Shows Huge Wave Smashing Military Base, Blowing Doors of Hinges

By Victor Tangermann

Globe owners, take heed: a new island has emerged from Japanese waters, the result of submarine volcanic activity off the coast of Iwo Jima.

Science & Energy

New Island Bursts Forth From Ocean

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite opposition, Japan will start releasing radioactive water from its Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean this week.

Science & Energy

Japan Dumping Radioactive Water From Fukushima Into Ocean This Week

By Victor Tangermann

Waves off of California's Pacific coast have been getting demonstrably bigger, even in the winter — and they keep hurting coastal communities.

Science & Energy

Freakishly Gigantic Waves Keep Battering California

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tim Shaddock, a 51-year-old Australian sailor from Sydney, and his dog Bella survived for two months while being adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

Science & Energy

Australian and His Dog Survive Two Months Adrift in Derelict Vessel

By Victor Tangermann

The UN has given Japan the green light to dump into the Pacific Ocean its treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Science & Energy

UN Approves Japan’s Plan to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of NASA's gigantic science balloons developed a leak a mere day and a half into its flight, causing it to plummet into the Pacific Ocean.

NASA’s Giant Balloon Crashes Into Ocean, Sinks

By Victor Tangermann

This isn't the first time that the Pacific Ocean has birthed a new island — and according to the experts, they tend to be a bit of a flight risk.

Science & Energy

Experts Have Bad News for That Tiny Island That Appeared the Other Day

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers from Arizona State University published a study on two blobs inside the mantle of Earth. Nobody is sure what they're made of.

Science & Energy

Scientists Puzzled by Two Huge Masses Inside the Earth

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The government of the Solomon Islands, a nation of hundreds of islands in the South Pacific, is defending its decision to temporarily ban Facebook.

An Entire Island Nation Is Banning Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

A new study has found that the Pacific Ocean's increasingly acidic water is dissolving the shells of newly hatched Dungeness crabs.

Science & Energy

The Ocean Is Getting so Acidic That It’s Dissolving Crabs’ Shells

By Kristin Houser