The Miami-based movie theater chain, with a CMX “Luxury” theater at Westfield Old Orchard Mall in Skokie, went on to say that ...

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Our ocean planet, with water covering more than 70 percent of its surface, is full of strange rhythms and gyres like the oscillation in the North Pacific.

The first Pacific Ocean storm is usually named on June 10, but the trend over the past two-and-a-half decades shows otherwise, making a May storm more expected than surprising.

Since the end of most commercial whaling in the 1970s and ’80s, humpback whales in the North Pacific had been recovering, reaching a peak population of about 33,000 in 2012.

Iron released from coal combustion and steel production is altering the ecosystem in a critical part of the North Pacific, a new study has found. About 39 percent of dissolved iron in the ...

Four storms are churning simultaneously in the North Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea, the first time on record that so many have occurred at the same time in the month of November, weather ...

The Pacific is the largest and the deepest ocean on our planet, stretching over 60 million square miles; that's close to 30% of Earth's entire surface area. The ocean connects the continents of ...

A cleanup effort in Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument collected over 47 tons of debris that threaten wildlife in Hawaiian beaches.

Ancient iguanas rafted nearly 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean from North America to Fiji, research suggests. The journey, which occurred about 34 million years ago, may be the longest ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Investigating longline fishing practices in the northern Pacific Ocean has been the mission of “The Rainbow Warrior” for the past five weeks. Greenpeace’s flagship ...

The research, which draws from not-for-profit The Ocean Cleanup’s systematic surveys of the NPGP between 2015 and 2022, found an unexpected rise in mass concentration of plastic fragments that ...