Spectacular satellite imagery shows three hurricanes spinning in the Pacific Ocean on Friday morning. The imagery was captured by the GOES-19 weather satellite, which belongs to the

A research team from Purdue University plans to visit an island group in the Pacific Ocean next month to examine a site that may contain remnants of the aircraft Amelia Earhart used to attempt a circumnavigation of the world in 1937.

El Niño is a natural cycle that occurs every few years, changing precipitation and temperature patterns around the globe. It occurs when the Pacific Ocean heats up near the Equator and the prevailing winds there relax, even reverse, allowing the warmer waters to move east.

Newport community members have been shaken by loss after a plane crash on Monday.

Karina rapidly strengthened into a major Category 3 hurricane Sunday evening and was moving west over the Pacific Ocean, forecasters said.

Between 2014 and 2015, a marine heatwave known as “The Blob” warmed an area of the Pacific Ocean larger than the United States and Mexico combined. The massive event fueled toxic algae blooms, collapsed fisheries,