Call it survival of the slowest: Extraordinarily old, bizarrely low-key bacteria have been found in sediments 100 feet below the sea floor of the Pacific Ocean, far removed from sunlight, fresh nutrients and what humans would consider anything interesting to do. Read full article > >

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Ancient life, potentially millions of years old and barely alive, found beneath ocean floor

The violent rise and collapse of an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean is captured in startling clarity for the first time.

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Rise and fall of marine volcano

Princess Cruises expresses regret that one of its ships failed to rescue a fishing boat adrift in the Pacific Ocean despite alerts from passengers.

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Cruise firm sorry over castaways

Constant interaction with electronics deprives us of the daydreaming time necessary to solve problems.

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Disruptions: Resolved in 2012: To Enjoy the View Without Help From an iPhone

Startling new images from the depths of the Pacific Ocean reveal one of the planet’s most violent processes – the destruction of massive underwater mountains.

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Subsea mountains’ ‘march to ruin’

The breach called into question the progress that the plant’s operator appeared to have made in bringing its reactors under control.

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More Leaks From Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant

China’s navy is to carry out military exercises in the Pacific Ocean, officials say, amid continuing maritime disputes in the region.

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China navy in Pacific exercises

Lionfish — those poisonous, spiny sea creatures most often seen in exotic aquariums —are delectable fare, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . And scientists from the department are encouraging fishermen, chefs and consumers to eat up. NOAA launched the “Eat Lionfish” campaign in June as an effort to quell the rising population of the fish, which have exploded along the Gulf Coast and Atlantic coast in the last 10 years. A native of the western Pacific Ocean, the fish has no natural predators in the area and voraciously feeds on young stocks of snapper and grouper. Read full article > >

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Lionfish invade the Gulf…and the dinner table

Nasa says its falling, six-tonne UARS satellite entered the earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean early on Saturday.

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Enric Sala remembers the exact moment he decided he wanted to be a National Geographic explorer — one of the few lucky souls who launch expeditions financed and documented by one of the nation’s most venerable institutions. A decade ago he was sitting in his office at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. — an academic perch with an idyllic view of the Pacific Ocean — as he unwrapped the brown paper that used to cover issues of National Geographic. “There’s a guy walking in the African jungle looking like a maniac, with a bunch of pygmies behind him, exhausted,” Sala recalled. “I said, ‘Wow, this is what I want to do.’ ” Read full article > >

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National Geographic’s Enric Sala is a man on a mission

A new type of eel that inhabits undersea caves in the Pacific Ocean is dubbed a “living fossil” because of its primitive features.

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A leak of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been stopped, its operator reports.

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A leak of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has been stopped, its operator reports.

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Japan plugs reactor leak into sea

Landlocked Bolivia says it will take Chile to international tribunals to recover access to the Pacific Ocean, which it lost in a 19th Century war.

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Bolivia to put sea claim to court

NASA is out $424 million after one of its Earth-observation rockets failed to reach orbit and crashed into the Pacific Ocean early Friday morning. The rocket, named Glory, was launched at around 2:10 a.m. for a three-year mission to study how airborne…

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NASA Rocket Crashes in the Pacific