An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...

5,000 new species have been found in an area of the Pacific Ocean called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. SMARTEX Project/ NERC These weird and wonderful creatures include worms, corals and sea ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute spotted the animal while using an underwater robot to scour the seabed. The animal is a polychaete - a class of marine worms, more widely known as ...

Photographer Nick Brandt captures underwater portraits of South Pacific Islanders representing people who are on the brink of losing their homes, lands and livelihoods due to climate change.

See Staggering Photos of the World's Largest Coral, ... found in the southwest Pacific Ocean. ... because their underwater measuring tapes were not long enough to capture its colossal size in one go.

“In the southwest Pacific, a seafloor ridge that stretches from New Zealand to Tonga has the highest density of underwater volcanoes in the world. On September 10, one of them—the Home Reef ...

In the Pacific Ocean, a blue whale swims in the deep blue. There's something undeniably humbling about sharing the water with the largest animal to have ever lived. In capturing such scenes, I ...

UNDATED (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - NASA has released new satellite photos of a "baby" island growing in the southwest Pacific Ocean.The island began forming after a ...

SEATTLE — The Pacific Northwest's most active underwater volcano is showing signs of an impending eruption, potentially occurring before the end of 2025, according to researchers at the ...

Good reef! The largest coral ever recorded has been discovered by scientists in the Solomon Islands. Sitting at 18 feet high, 112 feet wide, and 105 feet long, the massive coral is bigger than a ...

The volcano, known as Axial Seamount, is more than 4,900 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean and 300 miles off the Oregon coast, but it is showing signs it will soon erupt for the first time since 2015.

Photographer Nick Brandt captures underwater portraits of South Pacific Islanders representing people who are on the brink of losing their homes, lands and livelihoods due to climate change.