Researchers uncover a possible active underwater volcano chain near the Cook Islands, hinting at fresh geological activity.

Eruptions from an undersea volcano have apparently created an islet in the Ogasawara island chain more than 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean ... Nov. 1 that new land had ...

One Hawaiian island that draws the majority of visitors to the state is sinking into the Pacific Ocean a little more every ...

an archipelago nation in the South Pacific Ocean that comprises some 170 islands. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the 7.0 magnitude quake struck roughly 60 miles northeast of the main island ...

Thousands of new species are found each year ... have been found at three islands in the South Pacific Ocean: Australia’s ...

Amelia Earhart’s story is revolutionary: She was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean ... A new scientific study claims that bones found in 1940 on the Pacific Island of ...

took the deep sea submersible Alvin to the Galápagos Rift near the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Their expedition was to look for hydrothermal activity like that found at Yellowstone ...

Tens of millions of years ago, iguanas in North America floated across the Pacific Ocean ... today are also found on islands, and have been directly observed colonizing new islands via vegetation ...