What are the top facts about the ocean? While much is known about the ocean, a large part of it remains unknown. Here are fun facts about it for people of all ages.

The 50-mile Panama Canal was a multi-national, multi-decade project to link two oceans and transform global shipping. After ...

The waters around two remote atolls in the central Pacific Ocean—spanning 18,500 square miles—are now protected from fishing Sarah Kuta Last year, the team made headlines when it published a ...

2 min read The Ring of Fire is a roughly 25,000-mile chain of volcanoes and seismically active sites that outline the Pacific Ocean. Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, the Ring of Fire traces ...

A thin stretch of the eastern Pacific Ocean has been getting colder for the past 30 years, defying the broad global trend and baffling scientists. The surprising and rapid rise in ocean ...

This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Settling the islands of the Pacific Ocean was one of the greatest maritime adventures in human history. Some 3,400 years ...

A quirky science story emerged from the ocean depths in 2022 and it’s now ... the Papahānaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii. The formation’s resemblance ...