Weather systems that affect the West Coast of the United States often have their origins in the northern Pacific Ocean. This is because the jet stream usually flows in a general west-to-east fashion.

Will the coast be toast? An increase in seismic activity has prompted predictions that a mile-wide submarine volcano named ...

Axial Seamount is a young, 30 million-year-old undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. coast, and it’s expected to ...

To stand at the edge of an ocean is to face an eternity ... that from the waters off the East Coast of the United States to the coasts of West Africa, marine creatures are fleeing for their ...