A magnitude-6.6 earthquake has struck near Samoa, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake hit Friday morning local time, 440 kilometers southwest of the capital, Apia, at a depth of ...

President Donald Trump’s order to re-open distant, protected Pacific waters to U.S. fishing fleets followed years of dire warnings by the region’s commercial seafood interests.

Dozens participated in a paddle-out Sunday to protest deep-sea mining in American Samoa waters. The event at Ala Moana Beach Park was hosted by the Surfrider Foundation and several partners. It was ...

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Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, Niue's Prime Minister Dalton Tagelagi and Pacific Islands Forum secretary-general Baron Waqa opened the meeting Monday. The high-level meeting brings together senior ...

Five years later, he scrawled lyrics and scatted in his car for what became “Astronaut in the Ocean,” a fast-rapping track over ... Derulo DMed Jawsh 685 — named for the area code of Samoa, his father ...

Surfrider organizes paddle-outs in protest of Executive Order to “Unleash America’s Offshore Critical Minerals and Resources.” ...

Melbourne: A magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck near the South Pacific island nation of Samoa on Friday, the US Geological ...

The vast array of organisms in the deep sea remains a mystery to humans. Now, marine biologists can add one more puzzle to the list. A collection of odd materials was discovered nearly four miles ...

A strange sea creature discovered in Japan, resembling a skeletal panda, turns out to be a new species of Clavelina tunicate.

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

Off the coast of Bunaken Island, Indonesia, two creatures’ vibrant bodies made them stand out against their rocky reef environment as divers swam past, leading to their discovery as two species new to ...