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  • NASA satellite NOAA‑20 spots massive "ring of colour" in the Pacific Ocean

    NASA satellites captured huge green-blue ocean rings near New Zealand’s Chatham Islands which was caused by seasonal phytoplankton blooms. This attracts wildlife and reveal the ocean’s hidden biological activity from space.

  • Scientists Warn giant underwater volcano Off West Coast may erupt in 2025, rumbling with 1,000 tremors daily

    The Axial Seamount, located about 300 miles off the Oregon coast and nearly 4,900 feet below the surface, has been inflating since January and is now showing signs of unrest.

  • 8.8 earthquake off Russia sparks Tsunami alerts: What is Shallow Reverse Faulting that may have unleashed the monster tremor?

    Wednesday’s earthquake was the strongest in Russia’s Kamchatka region since 1952, according to the Russian Academy of Sciences.

  • China wants to break out into Pacific waters: How US naval power and geography are pushing it back

    The recent dual deployment of Chinese aircraft carriers in the Western Pacific marks a milestone, but also highlights Beijing’s limitations when compared to US-led coalitions that dominate Indo-Pacific waters.

  • Solar Eclipse 2025: When is the year’s second and final surya grahan – Will it be visible in India?

    A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon is in the way between the Earth and the Sun. This blocks the Sun's light partially or entirely for a brief time.

  • A massive underwater volcanic eruption on Earth shook the atmosphere all the way to space

    Even before the eruption, the volcano gave off subtle signals. A low-frequency wave, known as a Rayleigh wave, was detected by seismometers 644 kilometres away.

  • NASA astronaut shares a stunning photo of Moon over Pacific Ocean from space; check out the breathtaking image here

    Astronaut Matthew Dominick, who has been orbiting Earth aboard the ISS for nearly four months, recently shared a breathtaking image that has quickly gone viral.

  • India to seek licences to scout Pacific Ocean for critical minerals

    The UN-backed International Seabed Authority (ISA) has issued 31 deep-sea exploration licences, including two for India in the Indian Ocean, but is yet to allow mining because the 36-member body is still working on regulations.

  • Discovery of alien-like life forms found in the Pacific Ocean's darkest depths 

    Marine researchers discovered alien like species that lives up to 15,000 years in the darkest depths of the Pacific Ocean. These animals have been found in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean, which is located between Mexico and Hawaii.

  • Joe Biden, Fumio Kishida and Ferdinand Marcos go minilateral in the Pacific

    This week the US keeps building NATO 2.0 in the Indo-Pacific, even as it prepares to improve NATO 1.0 in July

  • Mysterious pitch black-eggs discovered in Pacific Ocean trench

    The elusive black spheres turned out to be the cocoons of flatworms, scientifically known as platyhelminths.

  • EL Nio to continue until April 2024, says WMO

    The India Meteorological Department earlier this month said EL Nio conditions -- abnormal warming of surface waters in the central Pacific Ocean -- are not likely to influence the southwest monsoon season next year.

  • Man, 24, rowing across Pacific Ocean rescued naked, dehydrated after boat capsize

    Local reports from the region reveal that the man, who endured sunburn and dehydration during his maritime misadventure, is otherwise in good health.

  • Sailor, dog stranded in Pacific Ocean for 2 months. Rainwater, raw fish kept them alive

    Tim Shaddock and his dog Bella set of in a catamaran from Mexico's seaside city of La Paz in April, and planned to sail about 6,000 kilometres (3,700 miles) before dropping anchor in tropical French Polynesia.

  • Don’t dismiss the fury over releasing Fukushima water into the Pacific

    To build the clean energy sector the world needs, nuclear power advocates must sway public opinion their way. Every form of major infrastructure has to deal with public opinion, and in a democracy you don’t get to rule whether your opponents’ arguments are valid enough

  • Harvard physicist to search the ocean for interstellar meteor. He believes it could be alien tech

    The search for the first interstellar meteor is being spearheaded by a Harvard physicist who has raised over a million dollars to probe the depths of the ocean for its fragments.

  • Viral video captures rare glass octopus in all its glory

    Footage of the rarely-seen glass octopus with almost transparent skin has left the internet in awe.

  • Explainer: What are tropical cyclones? How are they formed?

    Tropical cyclones are fairly common weather systems, clocking a global average of around 80 storms annually. However, with rising global temperatures and subsequent increase in sea surface temperatures, the trends are changing, and dramatically.

  • Watch: Scientists find a ‘yellow brick road’ in Pacific Ocean. How it got there

    An expedition to a deep sea ridge in the Pacific Ocean has revealed an intriguing “yellow brick road” on the sea floor.

  • Earth may have brand new continent 'Zealandia'

    A hidden realm as big as the Indian subcontinent that is submerged under the Pacific Ocean deserves to be recognised as a new continent 'Zealandia', according to a new study released today.

  • El Nino seen making comeback but India may escape effect

    The world may witness the comeback of El Nino this September, according to officials at the meteorological department, but the Indian monsoon may escape the impact the weather phenomenon brings with it.

  • It's still early days to predict onset of monsoon: IMD

    El Nino, the weather phenomenon associated with the warming of waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean, won‘t have a big influence on the onset of monsoon, says LS Rathore, Director General, IMD.

  • El Nino cloud hangs over Asian stimulus

    Adverse weather could hit central banks' scope for stimulating emerging markets, economists have warned.

  • Drought scare has Crisil cut GDP forecast by 50 bps to 7.4%

    The agency said a second straight year of deficiency in rainfalls can be "very damaging" as the efficacy of irrigation systems would have insufficient to due to last year's inadequate rains.

  • Monsoon rains delayed, to arrive by June 5

    The annual rainy season is vital for India as half its cropland lacks irrigation. The farm sector accounts for 15 percent of India's USD 2 trillion economy.

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