#pacific-ocean

#pacific-ocean

"If the sea surface temperature patterns in the North Pacific were just the result of processes related to stochastic [random] variability in the past decade or two, we would have just been extremely unlucky, like a really bad roll of the dice."

'To my surprise, which is something I've never witnessed, was a light I noticed on the horizon, it looked as if it were surfacing out of the water and going up.'

China's recent intercontinental ballistic missile test into the Pacific, described by its defense ministry as a "routine" exercise, raises alarms among its neighbors amidst escalating nuclear tensions.