The knowledge of how Earth recycled its crust revealed that fragments of continents slowly peeled away and swept deep beneath ...

The lava-filled sub-marine crater — which sharks and other sea life surprisingly call home — has started an active phase of eruption, according to NASA satellite images Stranger things have happened, ...

Continents drift apart in slow, powerful motions that reshape the world above and below your feet. A new study now shows that ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Pūhāhonu means “turtle rising for breath” in Hawaiian. It’s also considered the largest and hottest oceanic shield volcano on Earth. A shield volcano is formed of fluid lava flows. ...

Once inside the oceanic mantle, bits of continents become part of the magma factory that powers ocean volcanoes.

Seafloor lava rubble stores far more carbon than solid rock, revealing a long-overlooked carbon sink shaping Earth’s climate over time.

Scientists on the AKMA3 ocean expedition discovered an exceptional underwater feature consisting of a mud volcano in the ...

The cracking, bulging and shaking from the eruption of a mile-high volcano where two tectonic plates separate has been captured in more detail than ever before. A University of Washington study ...

More than 1,000 active volcanoes around our planet can sputter glowing lava and smoky ash, and the world's biggest one has erupted in Hawaii after 38 years dormant. The largest active volcano in the ...

The resort offers ample antidotes to Beltway hustle and bustle. “You won’t want to hurry, and because you’re on island time, you don’t have to,” says Kirstin Prell, visiting from Hampstead, Md. At the ...

W.G. Muller, 1978 (Barrier Reef Cruises, Queensland, Australia; courtesy of D. Tuni)/Smithsonian Institution - Global Volcanism Program Underwater volcano erupting Stranger things have happened, for ...