Most of North India is currently in the throes of a severe heat wave, as Jaisalmer in Rajasthan recorded a sizzling ...

That’s Powell’s City of Books in Portland – a bibliophile’s paradise so vast it requires a map, and yes, they actually provide one. The term “bookstore” feels woefully inadequate here, like calling ...

The U.S. has 16 territories in areas of the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean. People living in U.S. territories are citizens of ...

PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s executive order withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement raises the question of the implications ...

Now 40 days and nautical 2,700 miles into their bid to row the 9,000 miles from Lima, Peru, to Sydney, Australia, they will have a much better idea of just how vast the Pacific Ocean really is. They ...

A powerful underwater volcano known as Axial Seamount off the Oregon coast may erupt. Though scientists say it poses no ...

Environmentalists are challenging in court President Donald Trump’s executive order that they say strips core protections ...

After a wildfire catastrophe, California's iconic Pacific Coast Highway is reopening ahead of Memorial Day weekend.

HOUSTON—A SpaceX Cargo Dragon splashdown and recovery in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast is planned for early May ...

In 1972, a young anthropologist set out on a bird-hunting voyage with Polynesian sailors in one of the most remote corners of the Pacific. What began as a rain-soaked, sleepless journey evolved into ...

Before, scientists had considered El Niño a product wholly produced in the Pacific Ocean that goes on to influence global ...

When: May 25, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Where: Fishermen’s Wharf in False Creek, Vancouver Info: spotprawnfestival.com ...