Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley, giving rise to a new ...

The 50-kilometer-wide seamount contains three dormant volcanoes, the floor of which drops more than two kilometers below the ...

A global link was traced from Indian Ocean storms to wildfires across the globe from California to Korea according to a new ...

The Axial Seamount, located 300 miles off Oregon's coast, shows signs of eruption. Experts assure it won't affect land or ...

An underwater volcano off the Pacific Coast could erupt by the end of the year, according to scientists. The volcano, known ...

An underwater volcano located about 300 miles off Oregon’s coast is showing alarming signs that it’s about to erupt. Axial Seamount, which sits nearly a mile below the ocean’s surface, last blew its ...

A dangerous storm stretching 1,000 miles along the Eastern Seaboard will bring torrential rain to the Mid-Atlantic on Tuesday.

Andrew Wozniak For the first time, scientists have witnessed an active seafloor volcanic eruption along a mid-ocean ridge. The team, exploring underwater from the research submersible Alvin ...

At the same time, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the North American and Eurasian plates, may have increased by as much as 40%. “As ice volume was greatly reduced, it ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the Barents Sea. As he peered at a sonar screen, he saw something strange—a ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction processes. However, some MORBs display arc-like geochemical signatures ...