Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as massive rafts floating ...

A new submarine volcano was formed off the island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean in 2018. This was shown by an oceanographic campaign in May 2019. Now an international team has illuminated the ...

The link between volcanism and the formation of copper ore has been discovered. The findings could have far-reaching implications for the search for new copper deposits. The link between volcanism and ...

Separate clouds of smoke rise from either side of the road to Grindavík. On the right, steady white plumes emanate from the famous Blue Lagoon. Long before Iceland became a poster child for mass ...

Big, dark ocean waves were rolling our research ship from side to side. The Falkor is 83 meters long and weighs more than 2,000 metric tons, but a storm from Siberia that had just missed us was still ...