Some coastal species, like mussels, barnacles, and anemones, clearly need to latch on to a surface as part of their normal life cycle, and so find the open ocean inhospitable.

A study of plastic trash hauled out of the Pacific Ocean found that most of it had been colonized by coastal life that was thriving right next to species that normally live in the open sea.

Tropical Storm Flossie is expected to continue to strengthen in the Pacific Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said.

The Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology established, through genetic connectivity analysis, that a northward ...

China Coast Guard ships patrol the high seas of the Northern Pacific Ocean on August 27, 2023. China is a member of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission.

Hundreds of miles of Pacific Northwest coast from northern California to Vancouver, Canada, could fall straight into the sea if another major earthquake strikes the region, an alarming new study ...

This stunning Big Sur trail is the best of coastal California with Pacific ... like the dramatic North Point ... to see Big Sur's famed marine life, including whales, dolphins, seals, sea ...

Context. Though the photograph is authentic, it was captured in 2017 and shows a different patch of garbage off the coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea — not the Pacific Ocean.

The population of gray whales migrating along the North American Pacific Coast has dropped to levels not seen since the 1970s, according to a new report.

MIAMI (AP) — A weather system swirling off the coast of western Mexico has developed into the first tropical storm of the eastern North Pacific hurricane season, forecasters said Thursday. At ...

Pacific Surfliner, Metrolink resume along reinforced coastal rail line on June 7 by Jennifer Vigil • Times of San Diego May 29, 2025, 4:26 p.m. May 30, 2025, 7:18 a.m. Share this: ...

Off the coast of Oregon, hidden just beneath the surface, once-towering seaweed forests are beginning to resemble clear-cut wastelands. Bull kelp, a giant species of seaweed that can grow 100 feet ...