Four nations. One rock. Decades of disputes, fishing feuds, and legal chaos over a volcanic blip in the Atlantic. Dive into the bizarre battle for Rockall Bank—where pride outweighs territory.

On our planet, the cycle and balance of carbon from reservoir to reservoir is a matter of life or death. Carbon moves from ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an ...

A recent study has pinpointed the origin of a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption,' shedding new light on Earth's intricate ...

Samples from Hawaii seem to contain material that passed across the boundary between the planet’s core and its mantle, nearly ...

Bringing a novel approach to a classic problem, researchers have revealed how changes in ocean chemistry over the past 2 billion years have left an imprint on volcanic rocks formed in island arcs.

Deep beneath the waves of the Pacific Ocean, nearly a mile underwater, one of the most fascinating volcanoes in the world is ...

By analyzing the age and chemical makeup of ancient rock samples taken from ... to better understand other ancient volcanic features scattered across the ocean floor and above its surface.

Dr. Wozniak was parked on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean beneath ... end of a submarine volcanic eruption that had entombed the flourishing ecosystem under fresh lava rock. Vibrant signs of ...