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(CNN) A small island in the Pacific Ocean is the site of a huge discovery that could change Japan's economic future. How huge? One economist called it a "game changer." The researchers who helped find it said it had "tremendous potential." It's mud. A whole bunch of mud -- an estimated 16 million tons, ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Republican Congress members from the Pacific Northwest are upset with a federal judge's order to spill water from four Snake River dams to help speed migrating salmon to the Pacific Ocean. They say the water could be saved for other uses and are denouncing the spill, which began ...

A gassy smell that recently permeated LA's coastal communities most likely came from the Pacific Ocean, not a broken gas line, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman said Monday. Friday's sulphuric smell from Santa Monica to Venice to West L.A. was so nasty a couple Westside schools kept kids ...

The wreck of the USS Helena, sunk 75 years ago by Japanese torpedoes, has been found in the Pacific Ocean. The St. Louis-class light cruiser was discovered almost 3,000 feet below the surface of the New Georgia Sound, off the coast of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. The ship was ...

MP United Football Club B, left, and Vivid Blue players fight for the ball during their battle for third place game in the Pacific Ocean Cup 9 held late last month at the Hopwood Middle School Field. A Vivid Blue player, second left, checks on his teammates before making a pass. A Vivid Blue player, left, tries to ...

KGMI News. SEATTLE, Wash. – A new report says that while many Washington salmon species are listed as endangered, there has been a population explosion of short-lived pink, chum and sockeye salmon in the Pacific Ocean. An article in the April Journal of Marine and Ocean Fisheries says Pacific ...

This summer, she'll test her rowing talent in a far more challenging environment, where small crews of rowers rarely go: the Pacific Ocean. Dawson is taking part in a 2,400-mile rowing race from Monterey, California, to Honolulu. She and three teammates are aiming to break a world record — 50 days, ...

And on April 2nd, 02:16 CEST (April 1st, 17:16 PST), the US Air Force confirmed the reentry of the Tiangong-1 over the Pacific Ocean. As hoped, the station crashed down close to the South Pacific Ocean Unpopulated Area (SPOUA), otherwise known as the “Spaceship Cemetery”. This region of the Pacific ...

WENDELL, Idaho – Just as they do every year, steelhead are making the long journey from Wendell to the Pacific Ocean. The annual steelhead migration is underway, according to Idaho Power Co., which manages the Niagara Springs Fish Hatchery near Wendell. The first part of their journey to the ocean ...

The Chinese space station known as Tiangong-1 has finally fallen to Earth, and it just missed a spot in the Pacific Ocean that would have been its perfect resting place. The Tiangong-1, fortunately, did not deal any damage upon its reentry, with the location of its crash unknown until the last minute because ...

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- U.S. Strategic Command's (USSTRATCOM) Joint Force Space Component Command (JFSCC), through the Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC), confirmed Tiangong-1 reentered the Earth's atmosphere over the southern Pacific Ocean at approximately 5:16 ...

To the south of Tiangong-1's reentry point is an area of the Pacific Ocean known as the "spacecraft cemetery," where craft such as the 130-ton Russian Mir space station and ISS resupply ships were deorbited in controlled reentries so that they would splash down in the remote "ocean point of inaccessibility.

At the time the story below was written Saturday (March 31), Tiangong-1 was expected to fall into the Pacific Ocean. Earlier on Saturday, a 7:30 p.m. EDT target on Sunday would have put the space station's point of descent around Africa – so it still remains highly uncertain. "I wouldn't put a lot of faith in that ...

The huge floating island of trash in the Pacific Ocean, called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is now more than twice the size of Texas and three times the size of France. The patch, which is floating between Hawaii and California, contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic weighing more than 80,000 metric tons.

The Stadium to the Sea course starts at Dodger Stadium and passes through West Hollywood and Beverly Hills before finishing in the City of Santa Monica at the intersection of Ocean and California Avenues, just steps from the Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Thomas R. Cordova/Daily Breeze). A runner with his ...

The tsunami from Japan seven years ago did reach Santa Cruz about eight hours later after crossing 5,000 miles of Pacific Ocean. It had the greatest impact here on the small craft harbor where damages to facilities and boats reached about $28 million. Because of the warning system in place, however, ...

The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is bracing for the possibility of below-average salmon runs and the need for closures or restrictions along the British Columbia coastline due in particular to the Pacific Ocean “blob,” the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports. As DFO prepares ...

Sharks, 30ft waves and 2,400 miles – that is all that stands in the way of a former city trader bidding to make history this summer. Megan Hoskin, 34, originally from Eynsham, and her two crewmates will attempt to become the first ever crew of three – male or female – to row across the Pacific Ocean.

Environment | Climate change | Communities | Pacific Ocean. Pacific Heat Wave Known As 'The Blob' Appears To Be In Retreat. by Jes Burns Follow OPB/EarthFix March 15, 2018 3:30 p.m. ...

... would be tragic and could threaten the health of coral reefs where sea snakes are top predators and considered to be harbingers of ecosystem change. Oceans · Biodiversity · Reptiles · Coral reefs · Caribbean · Marine biology · ocean currents · Indian Ocean · Atlantic Ocean · Pacific Ocean · sea snakes.

Our beautiful planet Earth is covered in about 71% water, the rest of it is taken up by landmasses. These large bodies of water are oceans, and one of them is considerably larger than all the rest; the Pacific Ocean. This ocean is massive and holds some of Earth's most mysterious places. Check out this ...

After an underwater excavation, the U.S. military has found the remains of at least one serviceman killed over 70 years ago, after his plane was shot down as he flew over the Pacific Ocean. In the summer of 1944, two U.S. aircraft were sunk near Ngerekebesang Island, part of the island Republic of Palau, ...

Anote Tong, former president of Kiribati, believes his country will soon "be uninhabitable" amid rising sea levels. If a sustainable solution isn't found, locals may be forced to relocate and effectively become "climate refugees," he warned. The Pacific nation bought 6,000 acres of land on Fiji in 2014 as a ...

More than 70 years ago, during World War II, a U.S. pilot was shot down as he was flying over the Pacific. Over the decades, sand and sea life at the bottom of the ocean covered the wreckage, further obscuring it from view. But now, members of the U.S. armed forces have retrieved the remains of the pilot, ...

The ridge of a high pressure area (HPA) is extending over northern Luzon, while the easterlies are affecting the rest of the country, the weather bureau said in its Sunday forecast. Metro Manila and the rest of the country will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers due to localized ...

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Seabird diets reveal ecosystem shift in Pacific Ocean. By Peter Fimrite. February 21, 2018 Updated: February 22, 2018 11:27am. Tyler Gagne, an assistant research scientist with the Monterey Bay Aquarium, examines bird feathers. Tyler Gagne, an assistant research scientist with the Monterey Bay Aquarium, takes a ...

21 February 2018, Wellington, New Zealand - The stark realities of climate change were laid bare today at the opening of the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Climate Conference in Wellington. Calls from the Prime Minister of Samoa for urgent action were made as climate change is put under the microscope during ...

A United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after its engine began to fall apart over the Pacific Ocean. Passengers told of hearing “a loud boom” and said the plane “really started shaking” after part of an engine cover was ripped off in mid-air. One woman on board described the ...

In 1997, sailboat captain Charles Moore sailed from Hawaii across the Pacific Ocean, taking a shortcut to his home port of Los Angeles after a sailing race. As he cut across the then-seldom-sailed stretch of ocean – the swirling North Pacific Gyre – he came upon an enormous accumulation of plastic trash ...

The Pacific Ocean near Big Sur has been illuminated for a few nights with a neon blue glow, bringing photographers out at night to document the bioluminescent phytoplankton bloom. Steve Haddock, a senior scientist with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, says the glow is caused by ...

These drones have just completed a test voyage across the Pacific Ocean, sailing for 8 months and collecting wind and temperature data. Under a full partnership with NOAA, these sailboat drones would fill the ocean, continually collecting data to help the agency track storms and other weather patterns.

According to court records, he incited a brawl on the Beijing-bound flight that involved flight attendants getting punched, bottles of wine being broken over peoples' heads, and Hudek attempting to open an airplane door 30,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean. Hudek pleaded guilty to four federal felonies this ...