Hurricane Gil was continuing to churn in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Saturday but is not expected to threaten land and is likely to decrease in strength rapidly over the weekend, forecasters said. The Miami-based U.

The Pacific hurricane season has been busy, with nine named storms and 3-soon-to-be-4 hurricanes, but August is a big month for Atlantic storms.

A team of researchers discovered a “flourishing” ecosystem of clams, tube worms and other creatures over 30,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean. The discoveries mark the “deepest and the most extensive chemosynthesis-based communities known to exist,

Researchers discovered communities of creatures living in frigid, pitch-black waters under high pressure

That’s what an international team of scientists did last summer. Led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the researchers took a manned submersible to the bottom of deep-sea trenches in an area in the northwest Pacific Ocean,