The Latest Breaking News from Pacific Ocean

Powerful surf is rolling onto beaches on the West Coast and Hawaii as a big swell generated by the stormy Pacific Ocean pushes toward shorelines

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Global warming leads to more powerful cyclones, with a growing number of cyclones experiencing multiple rapid intensification. This poses significant challenges to forecasting and can occur even in mature stages. Researchers found a surge in frequency of multiple rapid intensifications, with western north Pacific Ocean basin contributing most. To understand…

After a rare three-year La Niña event brought heavy rain and flooding to eastern Australia in 2020-22, we’re now bracing for the heat and drought of El Niño at the opposite end of the spectrum.

A thin stretch of the eastern Pacific Ocean has been getting colder for the past 30 years, defying the broad global trend and baffling scientists.

El Niño is warming up the water in the Pacific Ocean. That extra heat affects the whole planet, and has helped drive record-breaking hot weather.

El Niño is a weather event that takes place every two to seven years and sees the warming of the Pacific Ocean which charges parts of the atmosphere, leading to more extreme weather events

A weather pattern known as El Niño has formed over the pacific ocean, and scientists believe it could drastically increase global temperatures and trigger extreme events like droughts and cyclones.

A map of the Pacific Ocean showing sea surface temperature anomalies where the temperatures are high in the Pacific.

The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and forecasters are keeping a close eye on rising ocean temperatures, and not just in the Atlantic.

Scientists calculate there are thousands of unidentified species living on the ocean floor between Hawaii and Mexico where deep-sea mining for critical minerals needed to build batteries is set to begin next year.