Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 11 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of April 25.

Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor ...

Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor ...

“Koholā is the manifestation of our god of the sea and ... across the Pacific. “Although divided within Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, we belong to one ocean. It is important for ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

In a recent deep-sea research expedition reported by Animals Around The Globe, scientists have identified what may be the oldest living fish ever recorded in the Pacific Ocean.

During the NOAA team’s ongoing Beyond the Blue: Illuminating the Pacific expedition aboard the Okeanos Explorer, researchers ...

But farther out in the Pacific, life in the vast Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument faces a very different ...