New research suggests that Earth’s orbital variations—the slow changes in its tilt, axial precession, and shape of its ...

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a volcano scientist who does her work in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—at the ...

Deep beneath the icy waters of the Barents Sea, scientists have made an extraordinary discovery—a long-hidden mud volcano sitting at a depth of 400 meters. Named the Borealis Mud Volcano ...

The impact of hurricanes when they travel over land, or when they affect ships or oil-drilling platforms, are quite well ...

Lava from Kilauea volcano pours out of tubes into the Pacific ... percent of Hawaii’s lava tubes have been mapped. “The deep sea, outer space, and caves: Those are the only frontiers left ...

These types of collisions can also lead to underwater volcanoes that eventually build up into island arcs like Japan. At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle ...

the deep sea trenches, and the origin of the midocean ridges. Hess's puzzling guyots fit into the sea-floor spreading picture, as well. It's believed they were once-active volcanoes which rose ...