Japan is the biggest consumer of rare earths after China. Beijing dominates the supply chain for the strategic minerals, ...

Deep under the Pacific Ocean, between 900 and 1,200 km deep, scientists have discovered something that doesn’t fit with what textbooks say about our planet.

Several years worth of findings from a floating laboratory have tapped into a well-stocked coral library of taxonomic, ...

Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge ...

Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean accompanying global warming. Existing climate models have failed to capture this ...

A “lethal kinetic strike” on a narcotrafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed a trio of narcoterrorists, military officials said. The U.S. Southern Command announced that Joint Task ...

A major new study shows long-term ocean warming is steadily reducing fish populations, putting global food security at risk.

Far below the surface of the western Pacific Ocean, scientists have uncovered a geological system that reshapes how you may think about Earth’s hidden energy potential. Deep beneath thousands of ...

An Ohio woman will look to make history by rowing across the ocean later this year.

The U.S. military says it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean. U.S.

Katie Spotz became the youngest person to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She could be the first American woman to accomplish the feat in the Pacific.