Dust blown from the Earth's continents falls into the oceans and fertilizes them with nutrients needed for plants, such as ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Midway Atoll is just about the ...

You may have noticed that most plane routes avoid flying directly over the Pacific Ocean, and the reasoning behind that ...

FOX 10 salutes North Pacific Ocean Electrician's Mate 2nd Class Brennon Ybanez. The Phoenix native is seen here monitoring ...

(KGO) -- An ocean-going research project we told you ... following a path called the North Pacific Convergent Zone. It's essentially a mix of warmer and cooler currents that host a kind of moving ...

It covers about a third of the Earth. The Pacific Ocean stretches from the continents of Asia and Oceania on the east, to North and South America on the west. It also stretches across both sides ...