It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s becoming something else. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where no ...

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”, ...

Far below the reach of sunlight, scientists have stumbled on a patch of vivid blue mud on the Pacific seafloor that appears to host organisms thriving in conditions long thought impossible. The ...

Scientists have discovered and explored a giant hydrothermal system at the bottom of the Pacific, which could provide a window into the origins of life on Earth. When you purchase through links on our ...