I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

Spreading crushed stone across farm fields could inexpensively pull CO2 from the air while also increasing yields. But it ...

A major solution to the climate crisis may lie at the bottom of the ocean. Across the planet, basalt rock deposits on the sea ...

Earth bubbles and broils beneath an underwater peak called Axial Seamount, located 480 kilometers (300 miles) off Oregon's ...

Much of this phosphorus came from volcanic rock like basalt, both on the continents and on the seafloor. Using a computer ...

The seafloor spreads out as molten rock emerges, reshaping the deep-sea landscape with each eruption. Though not a human threat, Axial is a testbed for predicting eruptions. Chadwick hopes these ...