Since operations targeting suspected drug traffickers began over the summer, over 30 people have been reportedly killed.

Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles, though they have mostly stopped short of the Pacific Northwest coast.

The operation was one of several that resulted in the Coast Guard seizing more than 100,000 pounds of cocaine from ships in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

Polynesian Voyaging Society’s traditional double-hulled voyaging canoes Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia departed later in the afternoon of Oct. 21 from Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, beginning their deep-sea voyage to Aotearoa, the Māori name for New Zealand.

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,

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,