The challenge of understanding California and all it has to offer travelers is that it is a behemoth in size—at nearly 156,000 square miles—and somewhat shrouded in stereotype. It has beautiful ...

The famed highway reopened this week after consecutive landslides shuttered two sections of the road in Big Sur and forced ...

Explore South Pacific tourism in 2026, from Guam’s recovery led by the Guam Visitors Bureau to Fiji, Palau, French Polynesia, ...

Standing at the edge of the world, in a place I only knew from photos and documentaries, I can’t imagine a greater thrill ...

A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore ...

The US military conducted strikes against two alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing 5 people, according to US Southern Command. At least 104 people have now ...

The expansion of Arctic shipping, scramble for seafloor mining and overfishing are all straining international relationships.

Oregon State University research into marine protected areas plays a crucial role in the historic High Seas Treaty that goes ...

It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s ...

Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, ...

RAROTONGA, Cook Islands—In October, a U.S. research vessel arrived in this remote South Pacific nation to capture high-definition images of the seafloor. A few weeks later, a Chinese ship arrived to ...

Deep in the south Pacific Ocean, near the remote Solomon Islands, there’s a volcano unlike any other on earth. For one, it’s underwater; and secondly, it’s extremely active. Kavachi, it’s called. And ...