This geographical phenomenon, known as the Eastern African Rift (EARS), is believed to have initiated around 22 million years ...

From a research submersible, scientists saw hardened lava, dead tube worms and orange flashes from an eruption in the East ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an undersea volcanic mountain chain.

"Three quarters of all of the volcanic activity on Earth takes place at mid-ocean spreading centers," said Deborah Kelley, a professor in the UW School of Oceanography and director of the Regional ...