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NOAA explorers discovered a massive underwater mountain near Palau using sonar mapping during ocean exploration cruise.
A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching from the water around Japan to the US West Coast. The abnormally warm “blob” of ocean water is affecting the weather on land and could have ripple effects on marine life.
Kiko was a post-tropical cyclone in the North Pacific Ocean early Wednesday Hawaii time, the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. Kiko is the 11th named storm to form in the Eastern Pacific in 2025.
Forecasters warned that swells from Hurricane Kiko could reach the Hawaiian Islands by the end of the weekend and cause life-threatening surf and rip currents.
Both the United States and China have sent an aircraft carrier to the Philippine Sea, beyond the first island chain under America's maritime containment strategy to restrict Beijing's military access to the Pacific Ocean with allied and friendly territories.