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When the Kīlauea Volcano erupted in May 2018, an enormous amount of ash was released into the atmosphere in a plume nearly ...

Credit: @ Didier Marti/Getty Images A series of relatively young underwater volcanoes has been discovered under the waves of the Pacific Ocean, some of which may even be active. The volcanoes were ...

When volcanic activity in the region began millions of years ago, hot magma erupted on the ocean floor and eventually cooled. When this process occurs repeatedly, it can result in the formation of ...

There’s a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that most people have never heard of. Once part of the Russian ...

It is one of 24 active volcanoes in the Philippines, which sits along the Pacific "Ring of Fire" – a 40,000km horseshoe-shaped belt around the Pacific Ocean where tectonic plates meet ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent ... Scientists studying grains of zircon, a tough mineral that forms in volcanic rock, have uncovered surprising evidence ...

A HUGE 7.1-magnitude earthquake has hit near Tonga and Niue in the Pacific Ocean and prompted a tsunami warning. The US Geological Survey said the temblor hit about 62 miles northeast of the main ...

A new study by an international team of researchers revealed that a rare and large summertime phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre in the summer of 2018 was prompted by ash ...

Not to be outdone, the volcano exploded over 9,000 years ago and in the process created a caldera that is 11 by 18 kilometers. This eruption sent pyroclastic flows into the Pacific Ocean and Bering ...

There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central, and South America, including the marine iguanas of the Galapágos and the ...