An executive order issued by President Trump opens the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument to fishing, asserting ...

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 ...

Mr. Trump issued an executive order opening up the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, which lies some 750 ...

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 ...

As the High Seas Treaty stalls, an opportunity to protect one of the Pacific’s most fragile ecosystems is emerging.

The Tunnicliffe Collection, largely from hydrothermal vents, holds more than 5,200 lots of formalin- and ethanol-fixed animals collected from the northeast Pacific (Juan de Fuca and Explorer Ridges), ...

A Japanese researcher says it is likely that an underground mountain beneath Tokyo Bay has been triggering frequent earthquakes in the Kanto region.

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 ...

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 ...

Map showing the Emperor Seamount Chain in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Image courtesy of Pew Charitable Trusts. The DSCC and other conservation groups criticized the NPFC for failing to take ...

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Collection includes rocks from a wide variety of physiographic provinces throughout the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans. All major tectonic features, ...