The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's ocean basins, according to the National Ocean Service. It contains more than half of the free water on Earth, spanning around 63 million square miles .

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

The Arctic Ocean has always been a region that’s fascinated University of Delaware doctoral student Tianyu Zhou. While most of humanity lives in the world’s temperate zone, the polar ocean seems like ...

China’s Coast Guard claimed it entered waters of the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol with Russia – in the latest sign of enhanced coordination between the two in a ...

Over the past 25 years, the amount of summer Arctic sea ice has diminished by more than 1 million square kilometers. As a result, vast areas of the Arctic Ocean are now, on average, ice free in ...

One of the Chinese coast guard vessels transits the Pacific Ocean during a joint China-Russia coast guard mission in the Pacific Ocean. Two Chinese coast guard vessels returned home on October 17.

Earlier this year a group of explorers found themselves on thin ice. Their special F-150 sunk to the depths below. Here's how they got it back.

The Arctic Ocean is warming quickly—the Fram Strait is nearly 2 degrees Celsius warmer than it was in 1900. But Atlantification is about more than rising temperatures: It’s a process that is ...

Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins. As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet.

The Arctic Ocean may be ground zero for climate change.According to a study published in Geophysical Research Letters, runoff from the Mackenzie River in Canada is causing the ocean to release ...

They formed a task force and headed for the waters in the Northern Pacific Ocean to conduct a joint patrol afterward. China's presence in the Northern Pacific Ocean has been growing recently.