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Japan found enough minerals off a remote Pacific island to fuel its EV plans for over a decade
Researchers found a motherlode of around 230 million metric tons of minerals on the seabed off a re…
Tom Carter
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A new carbon removal plant will absorb carbon dioxide 99,000 times faster than Earth's oceans
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions isn't enough. We have to start sucking CO2 from the atmosphere and…
Ellyn Lapointe,Jessica Orwig
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PM Modi and French President Macron discuss ways to further cement strategic ties at G7 summit sidelines
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he had an excellent meeting with French President Emman…
PTI
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A stranded Australian sailor and his dog survived 2 months adrift in the Pacific Ocean by eating raw fish and drinking rainwater after running into a storm on their 3,700-mile journey
When he was found, Tim Shaddock was wearing two hats to shield himself from the sun and sporting a …
Matthew Loh
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A man who was trying to row across the Pacific Ocean in a handmade boat was rescued after capsizing
Tom Robinson, 24, aimed to become the youngest person to row across the Pacific Ocean in a boat he …
Jordan Parker Erb
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D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history — and likely the last. Here's why.
D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history, and possibly the last due to smaller militari…
Michael Peck
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India announces relief aid worth 1 million US dollars for landslide-hit Papua New Guinea
After over 650 people lost their lives in the deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea, India, on Tuesd…
ANI
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Watch the US and its Pacific partners obliterate an ex-US frigate with guns and missiles
Video posted by the US Navy shows a decommissioned frigate being clobbered by missiles and bombs be…
Abbie Shull
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Southeast Asia braces for more droughts and haze with El Nino in the horizon
Southeast Asia faces a high risk of drought, water scarcity, and haze due to the El Nino weather ph…
PTI
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About half a billion dollars worth of cocaine — enough to service the New Zealand market for 30 years — was found floating in the Pacific Ocean
Some of the cocaine packages had identifiable stickers, like a four-leaf clover, and the logo for B…
Felise Seah
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Video shows a rare brawl between a pod of orcas and 2 humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean
The fight lasted for three hours and ended with the whales giving up and swimming away into the fog.
Hannah Getahun
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China's latest supersonic spy drone looks a lot like the Lockheed D-21 that crashed there in 1971
China's new WZ-8 supersonic drone resembles the Lockheed D-21, a supersonic reconnaissance drone th…
Benjamin Brimelow
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El Niño could cause 1.5°C warming for the first time in 2024
The sheer scale of damage that global warming can inflict is incomparable for even the tiniest temp…
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If you're stranded on an island, a 'HELP' sign can actually save you — but there's an even better way to get rescued
Three men stranded on a Pacific island were rescued after writing "HELP" with palm leaves. A surviv…
Kelsey Vlamis
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2023 is officially the hottest year on record, thanks to climate change and El Niño
Perhaps one of the more concerning revelations was the fact that nearly half of 2023 had breached t…
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Dozens are trapped in highway tunnels and rock quarries after the devastating Taiwan earthquake: reports
Taiwan was hit by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, toppling buildings and trapping 70 people in rock qua…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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US Marines train for war with China on an island-hopping battlefield, report says
New agile US Marine formations are learning how to battle adversaries like China on remote islands,…
Alia Shoaib
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is actually a unique ocean ecosystem teeming with sea creatures that cling to the plastic trash
A coauthor of a new study that found coastal species of sea life were living on plastic in the open…
Kelsey Vlamis
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A pristine region of the Pacific Ocean targeted for deep-sea mining contains 5,000 new marine species, say scientists
The new species were found in a mineral-rich region of the Pacific Ocean floor between Hawaii and M…
Bethany Dawson
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A 'massive' whale destroyed a sailboat in the middle of the Pacific, leaving 4 friends stranded for 10 hours
Four friends were eating pizza on their boat between the Galapagos and French Polynesia when they h…