The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote ...

The Eastern Pacific Ocean spans the west coast of the Americas, crossing 13 countries from Canada to Chile. WWF focuses our ...

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a tectonically active region with frequent earthquakes and volcanoes, spanning 40,000 km around ...

The Pacific Islands were well represented at the conference, with the Federated States of Micronesia, French Polynesia, Fiji, ...

Noise pollution from deep-sea mining carries an invisible risk for sea life, warn researchers, urging greater transparency from the industry to help mitigate the harms.

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ...

The United Nations Ocean Conference, held June 9-13 in Nice, France, saw some progress on better protecting the hundreds of ...

Speaking at the U.N. Ocean Conference underway in Nice, France, representatives of both countries said the vision for the ocean reserve is to cover at least 6 million square kilometers (2.3 ...

Remote coral atolls in the Caribbean. Habitat for threatened sharks and rays around a Tanzanian island in the Indian Ocean. And 900,000 square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean around French Polynesia.

As leaders of two Pacific island nations, Palau and Mā’ohi Nui–French Polynesia, we bear a profound responsibility to help protect this ocean. Our countries have combined national waters ...

Japan releases nuclear wastewater into the Pacific. How worried should we be? The plan to gradually discharge more than a million tons of treated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant ...