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The Latest Breaking News from the Pacific Ocean

Japan may start controversial Fukushima water release next month

Plan to release treated water into the Pacific Ocean over several decades secured IAEA approval on Tuesday.

Al Jazeera

The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says Japan can release nuclear waste water into the ocean

The International Atomic Energy Agency has approved a plan by Japan's government to dump nuclear waste water from the destroyed Fukushima power plant into the Pacific Ocean.

WEKU

Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft

A daring deep sea search has found tiny pieces of a mysterious meteor that crashed to Earth in 2014. The ‘alien hunter of Harvard’ tells Bevan Hurley the discovery may be evidence of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization visiting Earth

The Independent UK

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Sun blasts out powerful X-class solar flare causing radio blackouts on Earth (video)

The giant sunspot AR3354 blasted out an X-class solar flare on Sunday, July 2, ionizing Earth's atmosphere and causing a shortwave radio blackout over the U.S. and the Pacific Ocean.

Space

Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft

The Independent UK

Japan set to pour Fukushima water into Pacific, irking China

Japan is set to win approval to discharge more than a million cubic meters of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site into the Pacific Ocean, a contentious plan that’s soured ties with neighbors including China.

Tribune News Service

Do the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean mix?

Photos show what looks like a line between the Atlantic and Pacific with different water colors on either side, but is there some kind of barrier or do the two oceans mix?

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Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft

The Independent UK

Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific

The Independent UK

UN nuclear agency chief to visit Fukushima plant to see final preparations for release of wastewater

The chief of the U.N. nuclear agency will visit Japan next week to meet with officials and see final preparations for the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean

The Independent UK

Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific

The Independent UK

El Niño could push global warming past 1.5℃ – but what is it and how does it affect the weather in Europe?

Scientists have warned that 2024 could mark the year when global warming exceeds 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels. They attribute these predictions, at least in part, to the emergence of an El Niño event.

The Conversation

Japan regulators begin final safety check before releasing treated Fukushima wastewater into sea

Japanese regulators are making the final inspection before treated radioactive wastewater is released from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean

The Independent UK

The Jurassic Park Of Golf? The World's Best Holes You Didn’t Know About

Monty McPhee Travelled to Mexico where he played the Jurassic Park of golf courses at El Tamarindo

Golf Monthly

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Wales Online

El Niño 2023 is officially here and could bring record temperatures, floods, droughts and wildfires

The climate patterns in the Pacific Ocean can affect weather around the world and contribute to extreme weather events

Zenger

El Nino Is Officially Underway As The Heat Temperature Rises Along The Coastal Areas

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

The Guardian - US

An ‘unbelievable deal’? The $200m mansion reportedly bought by Beyoncé and Jay Z

40,000 sq ft manor overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu is thought to be California’s most expensive home ever

The Week

5,000 new species discovered in the Pacific Ocean

Scientists have discovered more than 5,000 previously unknown species living at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The creatures, which were spotted by remote-controlled vehicles sent down to the ocean floor, include worms, octopuses, corals and “gummy squirrels” – neon-coloured sea cucumbers with large tails that roam the seabed like…

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Air France flight turns back to Osaka after malfunction -Kyodo

An Air France KLM SA passenger plane flying from Osaka in western Japan to French capital Paris turned back on Sunday after weather radar and speed meters malfunctioned while flying over the Pacific Ocean, Kyodo news agency reported.

ABC News

Japan needs to release 1 million tonnes of water from its stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean

Operators of the Fukushima nuclear power plant are set to release treated wastewater into the ocean. But already Japanese authorities are facing a barrage of criticism from fishermen.

Space

Super Typhoon Mawar swirls menacingly near Guam in satellite views (video)

Satellites watched as the powerful Super Typhoon Mawar made its way across the Pacific Ocean toward the U.S. island territory of Guam on May 24.

Reuters

Japan says scrambled jets to Russian aircraft over Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan

Japan scrambled jet fighters after spotting Russian military planes over the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Japan on Thursday, the defence ministry said.

France 24

New Caledonia lifts tsunami warning triggered by Pacific Ocean earthquake

New Caledonia has lifted a tsunami warning triggered after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Friday in the Pacific Ocean southwest of the island.

The Conversation

We found long-banned pollutants in the very deepest part of the ocean

I was part of a team that recently discovered human-made pollutants in one of the deepest and most remote places on Earth – the Atacama Trench, which goes down to a depth of 8,000 meters in the Pacific Ocean. The presence of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in such a remote location…

WEKU

A cruise ship passenger is missing after going overboard in the Pacific Ocean

The passenger, a man from Australia, has been missing since Tuesday night. An air crew will resume their search at first light Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

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