Pacific Ocean

Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Monday that toxic chemical DDT waste barrels that were dumped near Santa Catalina Island decades ago are impacting marine life and could be a public health hazard.

Pondering a warm-weather exploration? The coastal wonderland has top-notch ideas for making the most of your “MENDOMOMENTS.”

Off the coast of Catalina and 3,000 feet deep into the Pacific Ocean, scientists have now mapped the sea floor and made some very worrisome discoveries. John Cádiz Klemack reports for NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on April 25, 2021.

Educational programs, summer camp fun, and sealife sights galore: La Jolla’s fish-tastic favorite splashes back.

When Dr. Jay Barlow and Dr. Elizabeth Henderson set sail from San Diego back in November, they couldn’t have predicted what was awaiting them off the coast of Baja California.  With a team of Marine Mammal researchers, the pair believe they may have discovered a new species of Beaked whale that approached them while they were on the open...

The Tall Ships Festival isn’t setting sail in 2020, but there will be three days of ocean-style celebrating for landlubbers to savor from afar.

Island Packers, which ferries travelers to Channel Islands National Park, is keeping an admiring eye out for beautiful ocean behemoths.

Streaks of electric blue light cut through the water in mesmerizing video of glowing dolphins captured Wednesday off Newport Beach. The video was captured just after sunset Wednesday by Newport Coastal Adventure. The dolphins, bathed in a neon glow caused by bioluminescence, swam next to the boat, leaving streams of light in their wake. Bioluminescence is a biochemical emission of…

Biolumenescence was in spectacular effect when dolphins glowed through the water off the Southern California coast. Video broadcast Friday April 24, 2020 on Today in LA.

Inky the octopus waited until it was dark and the staff had gone home from the National Aquarium of New Zealand before making his move.

California’s governor on Wednesday blamed the Trump administration for withholding data that is blocking the release of $650 million in state aid to combat homelessness.

The Annenberg Space for Photography and Explore.org head into the ocean via a fresh exhibit.

A large fishing ship ran aground on a remote Pacific atoll early Thursday, and the U.S. Coast Guard said it was helping coordinate the rescue of its 24 crew members. The 308-foot (94-meter) Chinese-flagged Ou Ya Leng No. 6 ran aground on uninhabited Taka Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew West said. He said a Coast...

President Donald Trump is scorching the facts about California’s wildfires. The president in recent tweets blamed California and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for the fires because of state forest management practices and said California’s fires were too expensive and worse than in other states. In fact, the fires were not raging mostly in forests. The bulk of California’s forests are...

A powerful earthquake shook the southern Philippines on Tuesday, killing one person, injuring dozens and sending people dashing out of homes and buildings in a region still recovering from recent strong quakes. The 6.6 magnitude earthquake was caused by movement in a local fault about 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) deep about 25 kilometers northeast of Tulunan town in Cotabato province,...

Tens of millions of voracious purple sea urchins that have already chomped their way through towering underwater kelp forests in California are spreading north to Oregon, sending the delicate marine ecosystem off the shore into such disarray that other critical species are starving to death.

An endangered sea turtle is being treated at the Marine Mammal Center near Sausalito.

Video from the cockpit of a water-dropping helicopter shows flames and smoke rising from a hillside Monday at the height of of a brush fire in Pacific Palisades that threatened nearby homes.