Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There have been five major extinction events that have fundamentally changed how ...

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A vast eruption beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean has been confirmed as the largest volcanic event ever recorded on the ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface tells a story of volcanism that began roughly 2.5 million years ago, but ...

For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.

The Hunga Volcano eruption in January 2022 off the coast of Tonga did more than produce a spectacular explosion visible from ...

More than a million giant skate eggs are discovered incubating in the heat of an underwater Pacific Ocean volcano.

Deep in the south Pacific Ocean, near the remote Solomon Islands, there’s a volcano unlike any other on earth. For one, it’s underwater; and secondly, it’s extremely active. Kavachi, it’s called. And ...

A brief history of the observation of the central area of Piton de la Fournaise / Jean-François Lénat -- Geodynamic setting of La Réunion / Jean-François Lénat -- Construction of La Réunion / ...

A new study by an international team of researchers revealed that a rare and large summertime phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre in the summer of 2018 was prompted by ash from ...

Kyle Field is no longer the Aggies' biggest landmark. The largest known volcano in the world is now named after Texas A&M, the university announced Thursday. The volcano is located underwater in the ...