Pacific Ocean

It's All Grey: Russia's most-active volcano Shiveluch continues to spew ash after massive eruption

The volcano spewed out ash for a second day Wednesday on Russia’s far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, throwing clouds of dust high into the sky and blanketing wide areas. Since the start of the eruption, the area has been closed to aircraft and residents have been advised to stay indoors

Kiss of Death: Sailing crew's narrow escape after giant whale capsizes 44ft boat in Pacific Ocean

“The back half of the boat lifted violently upward and to starboard.” The strong impact threw the rest of the crew, but they all noticed from various perspectives that a whale had struck the boat

ISRO gears up for 'extremely challenging' experiment of controlled re-entry of aged satellite on March 7

The low Earth satellite, Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT1), was launched on October 12, 2011, as a joint satellite venture of ISRO and the French space agency, CNES for tropical weather and climate studies

Indian Navy trains Philippines to operate BrahMos missile, will deter China in Pacific Ocean

The Philippines had signed a deal to buy the BrahMos missile system from India in order to deter belligerent behaviour by China and strategic expansion by the Chinese into the South China Sea

Fukushima nuclear disaster: Why Japan's decision to release stored water is its best option

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on Japan's east coast is running out of storage space, and the tanks could leak if an earthquake or typhoon hits. As a result, Japanese authorities have granted the site permission to release the stored water into the Pacific Ocean 

Red Flag Exercises: US, Britain, Australia conduct military drills with eye on China

The Red Flag exercises are focussed on addressing the vast distances that the AUKUS alliance comprising the United States (US), Britain and Australia will have to deal with while operating against China across the Pacific Ocean

New Zealand police recovers 3.5 tons of cocaine in Pacific Ocean

While they had yet to make any arrests, police said they had dealt a financial blow to everyone from the South American producers of the drugs through to the distributors in what was the nation's largest-ever drug seizure

'Atmospheric river' dumps heavy rain, snow across California

The so-called atmospheric river storm was pulling in a long and wide plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean. Flooding and rock slides closed portions of roads across Northern California

Warm December: Why winter is so late this year

The absence of cloudy and wet weather is resulting in a high diurnal range over the low to mid-Himalayan ranges

Explained: Amasia, the supercontinent that will be formed as the Pacific Ocean shrinks

Calculations by scientists at Australia’s New Curtin University revealed that Amasia will be a combination of present-day American and Asian continents which will be formed 200 to 300 million years from now