In order to blunt Beijing’s considerable head start on critical minerals, Washington should adopt a two-track policy on ...

In a development that could reshape our understanding of tectonic movement, scientists have found massive fractures forming ...

A fiery mystery has puzzled geologists for decades: where did the lava fueling one of Earth’s largest volcanic events come from? A new study may finally have the answer. Scientists have long believed ...

A group of scientists ventured into an adventure and performed one of the first deep-sea mining activities on the Pacific ...

The Axiel Seamount is one of a chain of undersea volcanoes along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, which runs along Oregon and Alaska.

But farther out in the Pacific, life in the vast Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument faces a very different future. The Trump administration has moved to reopen 500,000 square miles (about ...

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

One hotspot may have formed the Pacific’s largest volcanoes, linking the Ontong-Java Plateau to the Louisville Ridge.

The Oregon coast hides a secret that feels plucked from a European fairy tale—the Arch Cape Inn and Retreat stands as a cedar-shingled castle between the crashing Pacific waves and whispering coastal ...

The most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest could erupt 'any day now,' experts say. The last time it blew, it triggered ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 200 ...