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An aerial view of Pacific Ocean waves breaking near Morro Rock (TOP) in a marine area which is currently recommended for exclusion from the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary along California's Central Coast on September 20, 2023. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images via AFP)
July 3, 2025, 12:06 pm
Israeli startup’s unproven marine tech raises doubts about carbon capture claims
Scientists skeptical of Israeli firm Gigablue’s opaque scheme to sink thousands of tons of carbon-trapping particles in the Pacific, say it stands to alter marine ecosystem
By Helen Wieffering
Satellite image taken by Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite operated by Japan Meteorological Agency and released by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), shows an undersea volcano eruption at the Pacific nation of Tonga Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. (NICT via AP)
January 16, 2022, 1:49 pm
Pacific tsunami threat lifted after massive volcano eruption; Tonga damage unclear
Spectacular eruption, which created massive sonic boom heard as far as Alaska, cut off internet in the island nation, which saw large waves; no official reports of injuries, deaths
By Nick Perry
People stretch next to a tsunami hazard zone sign in El Segundo, California, on January 15, 2022. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP)
January 15, 2022, 11:59 pm
US West Coast under tsunami advisory after volcano erupts in Pacific
No immediate reports on injuries or extent of damage in Pacific nation of Tonga, near eruption site, as all internet connectivity lost
By Nick Perry
A barrel sits on the seafloor near the coast of Catalina Island, California, where marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be as many as 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT, March 2021. (David Valentine/UC Santa Barbara / RV Jason, via AP)
April 27, 2021, 8:02 pm
US scientists claim to find huge Pacific dump site of 25,000 toxic DDT barrels
With underwater drones using sonar technology, oceanographers map ‘staggering’ quantities of chemical waste on seafloor between Santa Catalina Island and Los Angeles coast
By JULIE WATSON
The Israeli delegation at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, September 5, 2018 (UN Photo/Wendy van Bree. Courtesy ICJ)
September 7, 2018, 10:30 am
Israel takes part in international court debate for first time in decades
At ICJ in The Hague, Israeli delegation weighs in on territorial dispute it has nothing to do with, in apparent effort to avoid being typecast as a one-issue country
By Raphael Ahren
This April 2015 photo provided by John W. Chapman shows marine sea slugs from a derelict vessel from Iwate Prefecture, Japan which washed ashore in Oregon.(John W. Chapman via AP)
September 30, 2017, 11:55 pm
Sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific on tsunami debris
Israeli researcher says marine creatures that made it to US West Coast from Japan could pose threat to local ecosystem
By Seth Borenstein
Tropical weather systems Hurricane Norma, left, on the Pacific Ocean side of Mexico; Jose, center, east of Florida; Tropical Depression 15, second from right, north of South America, and Tropical Storm Lee, right, north of eastern Brazil, on September 16, 2017. (NOAA-NASA GOES Project via AP)
September 17, 2017, 4:52 am
Storm, hurricane warnings send more chills to US East Coast
Multiple weather fronts currently at sea threaten to wreck havoc on American, Mexican and already-battered Caribbean shores
By AP
People watch a television news screen showing file footage of a North Korean missile launch, at a railway station in Seoul on August 29, 2017. (AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)
August 30, 2017, 5:16 am
North Korean leader urges more missile launches targeting Pacific
Kim Jong Un expresses ‘great satisfaction’ with first launch over Japan, as tensions mount
By Foster Klug and KIM TONG-HYUNG
New Caledonia (via JTA)
February 18, 2017, 6:54 am
New Chabad house opens in Pacific archipelago of New Caedonia
With a population of 250,000, the French territory now has a rabbi to serve the 250 Jews living there
By JTA
Illustrative image of Visale, Solomon Islands. (CC BY-SA StewyOz, Wikimedia Commons)
December 9, 2016, 4:43 am
Solomon Islands escape major damage after titanic quake
Islanders flee to high ground as 7.7 magnitude tremor shakes Pacific chain, but tsunami threat passes without incident
By AFP
This image provided by courtesy of NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Hohonu Moana 2016, shows a possible new species of octopus. Scientists say they have discovered what might be a new species of octopus while searching the Pacific Ocean floor near the Hawaiian Islands. Michael Vecchione of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says in a statement Friday, March 4, 2016, that on Feb. 27 a team found a small light-colored octopus at a depth of about 2.5 miles in the ocean near Necker Island. (NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Hohonu Moana 2016 via AP)
March 5, 2016, 12:16 pm
Possible new octopus species found near Hawaii — scientists
Pacific Ocean researchers spot small, light-colored creature, without fins and with suckers in a row on each arm
By AP
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