Built on a limestone foundation, Valletta housed defense systems in deep tunnels during WWII that saved Malta and Allied ...

With eruptions in 1998, 2011, and 2015, the volcano serves as a perfect laboratory, and experts expect an eruption by the end ...

Discovered by scientists in 2000, more than 700 meters (2,300 feet) beneath the surface, the Lost City Hydrothermal Field is the longest-lived venting environment known in the ocean. Nothing else like ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

In 2017, scientists of St. Petersburg‑St. Petersburg State University has obtained samples of rare rock from the slope of the Chukchi Plateau— an underwater ridge in the Arctic Ocean. Geologists ...

These submersible structures are already aiding conservation efforts around the world, from Gibraltar to Singapore.

The seismic activity of Axial Seamount, a submerged volcano roughly 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and more than one mile ...

Located on the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean, the underwater shield volcano last erupted in 2015, following previous eruptions in 1998 and 2011. The volcano, first detected in the 1970s ...

“We describe it as underwater gardening ... the ledges platforms to which coral can attach, and the ridge-like texture ensures grooves that small species can nestle into and find protection ...

About 470 kilometres off Vancouver Island, the Axial Seamount rises from the underwater mountain range known as the Juan de Fuca Ridge. The volcano is shaped like a warrior's shield, about 25 ...