The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world and is located between Hawaii and California. Scientists of The Ocean Cleanup Foundation have conducted the most extensive analysis ever of this area.

The sound of the eruption was heard in many parts of the world. As far away as the US!
On Saturday, January15, the underwater volcano at Tonga erupted, about 65km north of the capital Nuku'alofa, triggering a tsunami that flooded Pacific coastlines from Japan to the US. It caused waves higher than ...

Bora Bora is an island in the Leeward group of the "Society Islands" of French Polynesia, and a major international tourist destination in the South Pacific famous for its aqua-centric luxury resorts. The island, located about 140 miles northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier r...

A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Is...

Kavachi is one of the most active submarine volcanoes in the south-west Pacific Ocean. Located south of Vangunu Island in the Solomon Islands, it is named after a sea god of the New Georgia Group islanders, and is also referred to locally as Rejo te Kavachi ("Kavachi's oven’). The volcano has become

Sam Cossman and George Kourounis traveled with a group of explorers from San Francisco to Vanuatu, a small island country in the South Pacific ocean with the goal of descending a volcano in eruption through the Marum crater of the Ambrym Volcano. They used a GoPro camera to docuemnt their expedition...

Audrey Marie Munson (June 8, 1891 – February 20, 1996) was an American artist's model and film actress, known variously as "Miss Manhattan", the "Panama–Pacific Girl", the "Exposition Girl" and "American Venus".

A plane powered by the sun's rays landed in Hawaii on Friday, July 3, 2015 after a record-breaking five-day journey across the Pacific Ocean from Japan.

Scenes of devastation around Ishinomaki, Japan after it was hit by massive tsunami generated by magnitude 9.0 earthquake. Footage shot on 15th March 2011. So...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has published a report on climate change and the impact it has on remote low lying Pacific Island communities. The Marshall Islands is made up of 29 low lying coral atolls and they are disappearing.