We were among the first to stay at Nekajui, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, on Costa Rica's stunning Peninsula Papagayo—here's the ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

Among one of the most extraordinary claims of how fast the ocean is rising and claiming land, homes, and business on the water, the most fantastic is that the Pacific is rising 40 times faster in some ...

Some parts of the island chain have a 0.6 millimeter-per-year subsidence rate, but others are in a much more dire state.