The Latest Breaking News from the Pacific Ocean

Acapulco wasn’t prepared when Hurricane Otis struck as a powerful Category 5 storm on Oct. 25, 2023. The short notice as the storm rapidly intensified over the Pacific Ocean wasn’t the only problem – the Mexican resort city’s buildings weren’t designed to handle anything close to Otis’ 165 mph winds.

Regional leaders meet at the Pacific Islands Forum this week in Rarotonga, but New Zealand has let them down with our response to Japan's dumping of nuclear wastewater in the ocean, writes Karly Burch

The ISS is destined to be sent spiralling into the Pacific Ocean in 2031, yet the controversy over the £120bn behemoth continues

Footage from deep in the Pacific Ocean has given the first detailed look at three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in the pivotal Battle of Midway

Sarah Philpott will embark on her third swim in the ‘pitch black’ of the Pacific Ocean next month.

Friendly tip: this course is best enjoyed late in the day, with the sun setting out over the Pacific Ocean.

Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University in the US, has published a press release claiming that some of the 700 or so spherical metallic fragments (spherules) he recovered from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Papua New Guinea, are from beyond the Solar System.

Treated radioactive wastewater from Japan is being released into the Pacific Ocean but the removal of melted fuel debris from nuclear plant will be difficult

Watch a view of Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant on Friday, 25 August, as it begins to discharge treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.

The International Atomic Energy Agency — the UN's atomic watchdog — has said the release meets international safety standards with a "negligible radiological impact."

Local fishermen and the government of neighboring China are among the critics of Japan's decision to release water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean.