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Giant, near-perfect cloud ring appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — Earth from space
A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...
Southern Ocean warming could lead to wetter Pacific coasts for centuries to come
People along the densely populated Pacific coasts are exposed to strongly fluctuating rainfall patterns: In East Asia, heavy ...
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The mystery of how iguanas crossed the Pacific Ocean may be solved
The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.
Gray whales are dying off the Pacific Coast again, and scientists aren’t sure why.
The whales are now headed north. In just the last two weeks, three gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay, one of which ...
Never-before-seen chain of volcanoes discovered hiding on the Pacific seafloor
After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...
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Pacific Ocean Division Commander Tours Japan
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Ocean Division (USACE POD) Commanding General, Brigadier General Joseph “Clete” Goetz II, completed his week-long tour of the USACE Japan Engineer District ...
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Race to name creatures of Pacific Ocean as mining interest grows
PARIS: In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners — and huge numbers of strange and rare animals almost entirely unknown to science.
UC San Diego professor shares broader history of Black Americans along the Pacific coast in public exhibition
Caroline Collins looks at such people as mariners, explorers, whalers and shipbuilders between the 16th and 20th centuries ...
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Seal ‘oceanographers’ reveal fish abundance in Pacific Ocean’s twilight zone
That curious question led scientists to connect oceanographic conditions in the northern Pacific Ocean to fish abundance in its deep twilight zone by measuring how successfully elephant seals ...