The Latest Breaking News from Pacific Ocean

A recent spill of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru has had a devastating effect on more than 2,500 small-scale fishermen

Microplastics are everywhere. Snow close to the peak of Mount Everest was found to contain on average 30 microplastic particles per litre. And 11,000m below sea level, in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, an average of 2,200 microplastic particles per litre of sediment were found.

Residents of Ocean Shores to vote on tax-raising measure to protect communities along Pacific Ocean

NASA recently announced plans to retire the International Space Station by crashing it into the Pacific Ocean — a spacecraft graveyard.

Would be taken out of orbit into a 'spacecraft graveyard' in remote part of the south Pacific Ocean

Montana is one of the least populated states in the lower 48, but what flows out of it reaches to the far corners of the U.S. Montana is the only state hosting rivers that empty into Hudson Bay to the east, Gulf of Mexico to the south, and the Pacific…

On Jan. 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga erupted, sending a tsunami racing across the Pacific Ocean in all directions.

The eruption of the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai created a tsunami felt across the Pacific Ocean. This includes Australia, where small but measurable tsunami waves were still being recorded as late as Monday afternoon. These may even persist into Tuesday morning.