The Pacific Ocean News

As the San Fernando Valley ends its fourth weather year of drought Tuesday, scientists are eyeing a possible El Nino for a chance of serious rain next season.

It's officially summer on Sunday, but you might not know it in most of Monterey County.

By the looks of the sand dunes on the Pacific shore The wind has been playing since the sun opened the door.

The nonbinding resolution, adopted by consensus, was the first ever sponsored by the 12-nation group of Pacific Small Island Developing States whose homelands are threatened by rising sea levels, and the first to raise the possible security threat from global warming.

SciDev.Net, 27 May 2009 - The Pacific Ocean, occupying a third of the planet's area, faces threats that will render some coastal areas uninhabitable.

It has not been my practice to vacation at abandoned trailer park sites, but this time, I was making an exception.

A pioneering project off the coast of Japan aims to go further into an earthquake zone than ever before.

Thursday, 21 May 2009, 2:04 pm Press Release: Greenpeace New Zealand May 21, 2009, Auckland – Greenpeace today welcomed an agreement to propose that important areas of international waters in the Pacific Ocean be placed off limits to all fishing by 2010.

More than 400 leading scientists from nearly two-dozen countries have signed a consensus statement on the major threats facing the Pacific Ocean.

Tofino, like Jasper or Banff, is also a resort town, but set on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Tiny shrimp are luring some massive and rarely seen creatures back to the waters off B.C.'s coast.

The Pacific Ocean is the world's largest and deepest of the Earth's oceanic bodies.

It's a maritime meet-and-greet for all navies of the Pacific and the HMCS Protecteur is invited.

The answer, it seems, is blowin' in the wind. Bob Dylan's neighbours in the celebrity enclave of Malibu first noticed a mysterious stench last year but couldn't work out where it was coming from.

The Pacific Ocean holds millions of secrets for scientists who are trying to better understand the life that flourishes at sea.

Jim Harrison is known as a master of the novella -- his most famous work is probably Legends of the Fall -- but he's also written what I regard as an American epic with the 800-plus pages of the interlaced ...

A 65-year-old British man has almost completed an epic 2557 mile run across Australia, while pushing a wheelbarrow.

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico>> When I arrived in Ensenada recently to pick up my sailboat, I found the cockpit littered with dead fish.

Here's a great site about all 7 species of marine turtles . And here's the specific page for our local species, the leatherback .

Warmest 50 years, color-coded by period. The inset shows the entire data range from 1850.