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The Axial Seamount is located 300 miles off of the coast of Oregon. Researchers say it’s following patterns shown before its ...
Before you get in the water this summer, take a peek at the many ocean mysteries lurking below Dive deep into ocean mysteries ...
The White House’s executive order last month purports to authorize mining in international waters – against the authority of ...
In that sense, there’s probably more we “understand” about the ocean floor—particularly regarding its role in ... Orbiter and ...
In Australia's Illawarra region, a ghostbusting-style night tour reveals ghost fungi, sea sparkles and tiny creatures ...
To pinpoint how climate change will play out, scientists are trying to solve a painstaking puzzle with clues etched in ...
It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the Moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...
People are freaking out after seeing planet Earth from an especially unusual angle, with one complaining: 'This is scary'.
As scientists reveal we have only explored 0.001 per cent of the deep ocean, an interactive graphic shows what is lurking ...
Manage preferences for further information and to change your choices. Hint: it’s less than 1% — a lot less.
The Pacific Plate, which makes up most of the Pacific Ocean floor, is slowly moving west. As its western edge gets pushed down into the Earth’s mantle near places like Japan and New Zealand ...
A fiery mystery has puzzled geologists for decades: where did the lava fueling one of Earth’s largest volcanic events come from? A new study may finally have the answer. Scientists have long believed ...