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

Forecasters say Iona rapidly strengthened into a hurricane in the central Pacific Ocean and is expected to continue trekking toward the west over warm, open waters well south of Hawaii.

Hurricane Gil has formed in the eastern Pacific. By The Associated Press