The U.S. military killed five alleged drug smugglers in strikes against two vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday, in an expansion of the Trump administration's use of the armed forces in its counter-narcotics campaign.

The Trump Administration’s assault on alleged drug boats is heading west, as the U.S. military bombed a vessel in the Pacific Ocean, according to reports Wednesday.

Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles, though they have mostly stopped short of the Pacific Northwest coast.

A strong marine heat wave, known as a blob, is back in the northern Pacific Ocean, causing record warm ocean temperatures and a potentially wetter-than-normal winter for the Pacific Northwest, say climate scientists.

A surfer in distress was rescued from the Pacific Ocean near the Oceanside Pier Friday night, and was taken to a hospital in unknown condition after CPR was performed.

The deep ocean has long been viewed as a quiet realm, largely isolated from the dynamic processes that shape Earth's climate. However, new observations in the western equatorial Pacific have revealed robust intraseasonal variability at depths of 1,

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that the US Southern Command carried out a second “lethal kinetic strike” in the Pacific Ocean in less than 24 hours. Hegseth stated that these attacks will “continue,

President Donald Trump said he may authorize U.S. land-based military strikes against Venezuelan drug traffickers, citing a rise in cartel activity. The U.S. has deployed more than 10,000 troops, multiple Navy ships and F-35 fighters around Venezuela,