After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...

Known as Axial Seamount, it’s the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest – though one most people haven’t heard of because it lies about 300 miles offshore and just under a mile ...

IOCAS’s biodiversity analysis of three adjacent seamounts in the Western Pacific showed that of the species found at the seamounts, less than 5% were found at all three. This illustrates the ...

everything we need for our quest to reach a seamount named Las Gemelas. Its cluster of peaks, rarely seen up close before, rises from the bottom of the Pacific near Cocos Island, 300 miles ...

What You Need to Know: In October 2021, the USS Connecticut, a $3 billion Seawolf-class submarine, collided with an uncharted seamount in the Pacific Ocean. The incident, which injured eleven crew ...

Fishing vessels can often work long periods at sea without coming to port, thanks to the practice of transshipment, in which ...

Axial Seamount lies about 300 miles (470 km) off Oregon’s coast, deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. For years, it’s been closely watched through a high-tech network of underwater sensors and ...

Oceanographers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute in California recently mapped a massive underwater mountain in the Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,448 km off the coast of Chile. The seamount rises ...

For the second year in a row, New Zealand has blocked an Australian-backed proposal to restrict bottom trawling in the South Pacific.

Among the targets in that effort were the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument and the Pacific Remote Islands and Rose Atoll National Marine Monuments in the South Pacific. The ...