And on those thick flows, microbial mats can grow, and it almost looks like snow over a landscape.” Sea life can die if buried by the lava, which also risks destroying or damaging scientific ...

A volcano eruption near Oregon is brewing — but don't panic about Axial Seamount. The undersea volcano has been attracting attention for months as scientists prepare for an eruption they expect ...

Charlotte Lytton and Matthew Abbott traveled to Tonga to report this story. All photographs were made in May 2023. Sept. 1 at 6:00 a.m. Warning: This graphic requires ...

only gives a rough idea of what lies beneath the sea. Only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor has been carefully mapped, which means we know less about 71 percent of the Earth’s landscape than ...