Santa Monica’s iconic Pacific Park is officially turning 30, marking three decades since amusement rides returned to the ...

Here, we asked 25 notable outdoor enthusiasts—athletes, environmentalists, travel experts, advocates, and more—to each pick ...

For more than 50 years, San Francisco's Bay to Breakers was a standard foot race. Then two guys showed up in tuxedoes and changed everything.

Few traces of Wonderland Amusement Park now remain, but it reflects early Ocean Beach as a developing coastal community.

One species’ trash is another’s treasure. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean is now home to dozens of species, and the floating plastic island emphasizes how human civilization can ...

A super typhoon is taking aim at several remote U.S. islands in the Pacific Ocean, lashing Guam with heavy rain and tropical storm-force wind gusts hours before its arrival. Super Typhoon Sinlaku is ...

Artemis II Orion capsule splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Friday, April 10, 2026. (EDITOR’S NOTE: This Handout image was provided by a third-party organization and may not ...

After 10 days, the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft have returned to Earth, their mission around the moon a success. Integrity, the name of the crew’s spacecraft as part of NASA’s Artemis ...

The concrete cap of a tomb encasing radioactive fallout now has cracks, and what’s beneath can rise from the dead. The U.S. military, in 1958, conducted a nuclear test on Runit Island in the Marshall ...

The tropical Pacific Ocean and the frozen expanse of Antarctica sit more than 10,000 kilometers apart. Yet new research shows that when surface waters warm near the equator in northern winter, the ...

The US military conducted strikes against three alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing 8 people, according to US Southern Command. “On Dec. 15, at the direction ...

The joint venture that recently took control of Pacific Park has an ambitious new vision for the long-stalled Brooklyn development covering several blocks of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues and air ...