By Kristine Sabillo More than half of the tree cover in Pacific atolls is largely composed of “abandoned and overgrown” colonial-era coconut palm plantations, reveal satellite images in a study ...

It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

The body of water formerly known in the United States as the Gulf of Mexico is now listed for U.S.-based users of Google Maps as the Gulf of America.

Today, the Trump administration will be inheriting an inconsistent, inefficient, and incomplete diplomatic posture in the Pacific Islands region. The Biden administration may have expanded the ...

With President Donald Trump now into his second week in the White House, horrific fires have continued to rage across Los Angeles and the details of Elon Musk’s allegedly dodgy Twitter takeover began ...

New Zealand — home to large populations of Pacific peoples — is a popular spot for those from island nations to live and work. “In the meantime, New Zealand stands ready, as we always have ...

No matter what season you plan to visit, you'll find an extraordinary schedule of special San Francisco and Santa Cruz events and things to do including surfing contests, surf film premieres ...

An updating map created by CBS News' data team charts ... The Palisades Fire initially erupted Jan. 7 near Pacific Palisades, a partly coastal residential area in northwestern Los Angeles.

TAIPEI, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs said on Wednesday that undersea cables to the Matsu Islands, which lie close to the coast of China, were disconnected due to ...

An atoll forms when corals attach to the margins of a volcanic island or platform in the ocean. Over time ... world’s coral atolls are found in the Pacific and Indian oceans.

Perhaps incredibly, some experts are putting their money on the Ring of Fire – predicting that, eventually, the Pacific Ocean will entirely disappear. Not from any environmental catastrophe ...