MIAMI — Tropical Storms Karina and Lowell formed Thursday in the Pacific Ocean, both of which were expected to become hurricanes in the next few days, the National Hurricane Center said. Tropical Storm Karina was located about 825 miles (1,

Since then, more than 200 people have been killed in U.S. strikes in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea.

Three tropical systems were churning across the Pacific Ocean early Tuesday, fueled by exceptionally warm ocean waters linked to an already record-breaking El Niño and a huge marine heat wave.

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The ship was among four vessels detained in a surveillance crackdown by 11 Pacific island nations, assisted by the U.S. Coast Guard.

While Tropical Storm Bertha continues to spin in the Gulf, Hurricane Fausto is churning up rough seas in the Pacific, and could impact Hawaii next week, forecasters said.

A sharp cooling trend has occurred in an ocean region that has important consequences for what happens in the upcoming hurricane season. The patch of water, west of Peru and Ecuador in South America — about 3,000 miles south of Washington ...

Hundreds of millions of years from now, Earth will look unrecognizable as the globe’s largest ocean vanishes, and researchers say the continent “Amasia” will form from the collision of North America and Asia. A study recently published in National ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The blob is back, and no, I am not talking about the movies about the alien blob monsters. I am talking about the Pacific "Blob", a large area of warmer water stretching over the North ...

Forecasting rapid intensification is notoriously difficult. Monitoring sea surface temperature gradients could help.