US strikes alleged drug boat in Pacific Ocean
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The deep ocean has long been viewed as a quiet realm, largely isolated from the dynamic processes that shape Earth's climate. However, new observations in the western equatorial Pacific have revealed robust intraseasonal variability at depths of 1,
Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles, though they have mostly stopped short of the Pacific Northwest coast.
The U.S. military launched its eighth strike against a vessel that it says was carrying drugs, killing two people in the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean.
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that the US Southern Command carried out a second “lethal kinetic strike” in the Pacific Ocean in less than 24 hours. Hegseth stated that these attacks will “continue,