A group of researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP, Brazil) have analysed Rio Grande Rise (RGR), a possible continental plateau basalt - the result of a giant volcanic eruption that covers ...

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The Palisades fire wiped out something rare in affluent, celebrity-studded Pacific Palisades: an affordable beachfront ...

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In an effort to preserve the tiny island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, itsgovernment has been buildinga "digital twin" of the entire country. SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites on ...

Throughout the world, extreme weather is driving a growing death toll, exacting billions in damage, threatening food and ...

The waters around two remote atolls in the central Pacific Ocean—spanning 18,500 square miles—are now protected from fishing ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean lies the world’s remotest country, which can’t even be spotted on the map. Kiribati ...

Scientists on Friday confirmed that 2024 was the first to surpass a dangerous warming threshold of 1.5 Celsius that nations had pledged not to cross.

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As counterintuitive as it may seem, recent research by New York University economist Edward Wolff shows that "inflation has been a great boon to middle-class ... city on the Pacific has something ...

Whale-watching tour operators encountered the mass gathering of cetaceans while looking for migrating gray whales Sarah Kuta A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one ...