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

Museum experts are exploring how to bring the science dioramas of yore into the 21st century, while ensuring scientific accuracy and acknowledging past ...

Panamanian authorities seized six longliner vessels on Jan. 20 for fishing illegally in protected waters. They also opened an ...

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

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

When you hear the word volcano and Washington State you immediately think Mt. St. Helens. The 5.1 magnitude eruption on May 18, 1980 is the most devastating and destructive eruption in United States ...

They feature ridges, trenches, seamounts, and valleys, creating a diverse and dramatic underwater landscape ... is thought to be common but is hard to prove and has only previously been demonstrated ...

In a shocking revelation, scientists have discovered thousands of giant eggs in an underwater volcano off the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. These eggs, belonging to the elusive Pacific white ...

Scientists used a simple principle: underwater features like seamounts and abyssal hills are heavier than the surrounding seabed. Because of this extra mass, they exert a slightly stronger ...

In the fall of 2016, we used the DSV Alvin Submersible to explore the 8°20’N seamount chain in the Pacific Ocean. This chain extends ~200 km westward from the East PacificRise near the intersection of ...

Underwater mountains called seamounts and other ocean floor features like their smaller cousins, abyssal hills, influence the movement of heat and nutrients in the deep sea and can attract life.