Scientists recently discovered a chain of underwater volcanoes off the Cook Islands, providing fascinating hints of Earth’s active geological processes. These volcanoes are located below the ...

There are dozens of underwater volcanoes — known as seamounts — along the B.C. coast. The expedition will examine three of them. The slopes on the seamounts provide habitat for corals, ...

Krakatoa is one of the most famous underwater volcanoes and it was said to kill tens of thousands of people with an eruption in 1883. More recently, an underwater volcano called the Hunga-Tonga ...

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Over 19,000 new underwater volcanoes have been discovered across the ocean floor by scientists. The team of oceanographers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of ...

During a recent marine excursion, researchers searching for lobster larva unexpectedly discovered a geologic wonder: a 50-million-year-old cluster of extinct volcanoes submerged in the water off ...

Underwater volcanoes could generate enough power for the entire United States, but the explosions aren't consistent enough, or easy enough to track, to make actually doing so possible.

Seamounts are either active or dormant volcanoes that rise dramatically from the bottom of the ocean and never reach the surface. They are hotspots for marine life because they carry nutrient-rich ...

According to Tolstoy, scientists assume underwater volcanoes erupt at a steady pace, but she argues that seafloor volcanoes erupt in bursts. Subscribe to The Week. Escape your echo chamber.

A decade ago, we knew of almost 25,000. One study has discovered an additional 19,000. And we know there are even more out there.