Of all Earth’s seamounts, marine biologists have studied only a few hundred. More finely detailed maps of the surface of Mars may exist than of the remotest parts of the ocean floor. Scientists ...

A huge volcano at the bottom of the sea near the US ’ northwestern coast is predicted to erupt this year. Named Axial ...

Volcanic eruptions in the middle of tectonic plates, far from any volcanically-active plate boundaries, have created many of the thousands of ocean islands and seamounts that cover Earth's ocean ...

I write about the ocean, climate change, and the future of our planet. A spiraling coral documented at 1419 meters deep on Seamount JF1, within the bounds of the Mar de ... [+] Juan Fernández ...