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Annular solar eclipse 2024: Everything you need to know about the next solar eclipse

The next solar eclipse will be an annular solar eclipse on Oct. 14, 2024. The 'ring of fire' will be visible across the Pacific Ocean and South America.

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Mexico's beach party is excited to see the eclipse first emerge

The Mexican city of Mazatlán is the first place the total solar eclipse will be visible as it emerges over the Pacific Ocean today, and the weather here is perfect.

WEKU

Historic Total Solar Eclipse To Grace North America's Skies On April 8

The eclipse's trajectory will commence over the Pacific Ocean, making its way through Mexico, the U.S. and Canada, before concluding its journey over the Atlantic Ocean.

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Drownings at US-Mexico border up 3,200% since Trump raised wall – report

Thirty-three people attempting to cross the border into San Diego died in the Pacific Ocean from 2020 to 2023, study shows

The Guardian - US

How scientists are using facial-recognition AI to track humpback whales

After being hunted for decades, humpback whales returned to the Pacific Ocean in big numbers. Now, new technology is revealing that underwater heat waves are taking a toll on that recovery.

WEKU

Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane possibly spotted in the Pacific by exploration team

Deep Sea Vision says its sonar image equipment spotted an object in the Pacific Ocean that closely resembles the shape and size of Amelia Earhart's aircraft.

WEKU

China Tensions Rising, US Revives WWII-era Pacific Airfield

In the middle of the Pacific ocean, an abandoned US airfield once key to dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan -- and nearly lost to history amid encroaching forest -- is being revived.

International Business Times

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Australia can no longer afford to ignore Russia's expanding naval power in the Pacific

China’s expanding naval presence in the Pacific Ocean and the South and East China seas has become a major focus for Australia, the US and its allies.

The Conversation

Seamount twice the size of world's tallest building discovered 'hidden under the waves'

Scientists aboard the Falkor (too) research vessel have documented, for the first time, an extinct volcano towering 5,250 feet above the seabed in international waters in the Pacific Ocean.

LiveScience

3rd release of treated water from Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant ends safely, operator says

The operator of Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant says the release of a third batch of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean has ended safely as planned

The Independent UK

New island that emerged from the ocean off Japan is now visible from space

A newly-formed island off the coast of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean was spotted in satellite images after it emerged during an underwater volcanic eruption at the end of October.

LiveScience

Acapulco was built to withstand earthquakes, but not Hurricane Otis' destructive winds – how building codes failed this resort city

Acapulco wasn’t prepared when Hurricane Otis struck as a powerful Category 5 storm on Oct. 25, 2023. The short notice as the storm rapidly intensified over the Pacific Ocean wasn’t the only problem – the Mexican resort city’s buildings weren’t designed to handle anything close to Otis’ 165 mph winds.

The Conversation

NZ should rethink stance on Japan’s nuclear wastewater

Regional leaders meet at the Pacific Islands Forum this week in Rarotonga, but New Zealand has let them down with our response to Japan's dumping of nuclear wastewater in the ocean, writes Karly Burch

Newsroom.co.nz

‘It only makes the news when the toilets stop working’: has the 25-year-old International Space Station been a waste of space?

The ISS is destined to be sent spiralling into the Pacific Ocean in 2031, yet the controversy over the £120bn behemoth continues

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Video provides first clear views of WWII aircraft carriers lost in the pivotal Battle of Midway

Footage from deep in the Pacific Ocean has given the first detailed look at three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in the pivotal Battle of Midway

The Independent UK

Swimmer aims to be first British woman to solo cross ‘most dangerous’ channels

Sarah Philpott will embark on her third swim in the ‘pitch black’ of the Pacific Ocean next month.

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Photos: Check out the 15-hole putting course at Diamante Cabo San Lucas

Friendly tip: this course is best enjoyed late in the day, with the sun setting out over the Pacific Ocean.

The Conversation

Have we really found the first samples from beyond the Solar System? The evidence is not convincing

Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University in the US, has published a press release claiming that some of the 700 or so spherical metallic fragments (spherules) he recovered from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Papua New Guinea, are from beyond the Solar System.

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Removing Fukushima's melted nuclear fuel will be harder than the release of plant's wastewater

Treated radioactive wastewater from Japan is being released into the Pacific Ocean but the removal of melted fuel debris from nuclear plant will be difficult

The Independent UK

Watch: Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant discharges treated radioactive water into sea

Watch a view of Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant on Friday, 25 August, as it begins to discharge treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.

LiveScience

Fukushima nuclear power plant is now pumping wastewater into the Pacific Ocean

The International Atomic Energy Agency — the UN's atomic watchdog — has said the release meets international safety standards with a "negligible radiological impact."

WEKU

Worries over seafood safety mount as Japan releases Fukushima water into the Pacific

Local fishermen and the government of neighboring China are among the critics of Japan's decision to release water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean.

The Independent UK

Events at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant since the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster

The operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will start releasing treated but still slightly radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean as early as Thursday

France 24

Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant to release radioactive wastewater into sea

The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will begin releasing the first batch of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean later Thursday, utility executives said.

The Independent UK

The Fukushima nuclear plant is ready to release radioactive wastewater into sea later Thursday

The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it will begin releasing the first batch of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean later Thursday

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