Tropical Storm Madeline picked up speed as it headed toward Hawaii on Sunday, while Hurricane Lester tore west from the Mexican mainland across the Pacific, U.S. monitors reported. The center of Lester, a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (155 ...
Scientists found most of the coral is dead in what had been one of the world’s most lush and isolated tropical marine reserves. Researchers finishing an emergency undersea expedition Wednesday described what they called a graveyard of coral around Jarvis Island in the Pacific ...
A Colombian mariner has been rescued after surviving a two-month ordeal in the Pacific by eating fish and seagulls, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The man told the Coast Guard that his three companions on the disabled 23-foot skiff died at sea, but their ...
Former Japanese fishermen plan to seek compensation from the Japanese government for keeping undisclosed for decades records of their radiation exposure linked to a series of U.S. hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific, sources said Thursday. About 20 people, including relatives of deceased fishermen, ...
Organizers of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race say a British competitor who died after being swept off a yacht has been buried at sea. The 12 teams held a minute’s silence on their boats Sunday in memory of Sarah Young. Darren Ladd, ...
A U.S. Navy tugboat that sank nearly a century ago has been found by a team of government researchers off the San Francisco coast, officials announced Wednesday. The USS Conestoga departed San Francisco Bay for Pearl Harbor in March 1921. But the boat never ...
Over 12,000 aftershocks have occurred in the coastal areas of eastern Japan since a powerful earthquake struck the region in March 2011, the Meteorological Agency said Tuesday. Quakes that are considered aftershocks of the magnitude-9.0 temblor are happening less often, but their frequency is ...
The first stage of a SpaceX rocket that delivered a U.S.-European ocean-monitoring satellite into orbit Sunday made a hard landing on a floating barge in the Pacific and broke a support leg. SpaceX announcers said the Falcon 9 was not upright after reaching the ...
The U.S. Navy fired an unarmed missile from a submarine off the coast of California and managed to create a stir on social media because people as far away as Nevada and Arizona reported a streak of light in the night sky. A navy ...
Having spent 1,677 days rowing the open seas and cycling across continents, British adventurer Sarah Outen received a hero’s welcome on Tuesday as she ended her odyssey at London’s Tower Bridge. Stepping onto land, she was embraced by her mother, brother and tearful fiancee ...
Mighty Hurricane Patricia bore down on Mexico’s central Pacific Coast on Thursday for what forecasters said could be a devastating blow, and officials began handing out sandbags in preparation for possible flooding. In Manzanillo, one of the country’s principal ports, Luz Adriana Limon Rojas ...
Fisheries officials have called on China to reduce the size of its mackerel-fishing fleet operating in waters adjacent to Japan’s exclusive economic zone, a request China rejected. At the inaugural meeting of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission held in Tokyo on Thursday, the Japanese ...
