The U.S. has 16 territories in areas of the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean. People living in U.S. territories are citizens of ...

Researchers are watching the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest and now say that the volcano is swelling up like a balloon full of lava.

This massive wave impacted California, Hawaii, and parts of Canada, Chile, Fiji, Japan, New Zealand, Mexico and Peru. The West Coast won't have to worry about Axial causing an event like that. But its ...

There have been 307 hurricanes that made landfall in the mainland United States since records began in 1851, and now you can see them all on a single map. University of Oklahoma student Michael ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The name of “Island of Hawaii” might soon be history ... to official state and federal documents, such as maps, signage and legal records. Locals and visitors could ...

Beginning in 1997, the University of Hawaii deployed the Hawaii Undersea Geostationary Observatory — or HUGO — which Flinders described as a collection of instruments connected directly to the ...

On Tuesday, Apple Maps officially changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, the change comes in the footsteps of Google Maps' change on Monday. Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America as ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor ... abyssal hills, small seamounts and continental margins. Abyssal hills — parallel ridges that are just ...

Regional seafloor geology provides clues for the origin of Guadalupe Island, especially the distribution of two submarine features: fossil oceanic spreading ridges, where seafloor spreading once ...

Fishing has decreased greatly since then, but one Japanese trawler has remained active on the seamounts in recent years ... stock is severely depleted. Map showing the Emperor Seamount Chain ...

It’s never too soon to start thinking about the next solar eclipse. On April 8, the moon’s shadow will sweep across North America, bringing a total solar eclipse over the homes of more than 30 ...