The idea that the Atlantic basin is physically deepening as the Strait of Gibraltar slowly collapses into it sounds like science fiction, yet it reflects a real set of tectonic and oceanographic ...

Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line) and how melting ice from Greenland caused changes in the motion of Earth's crust (purple arrows). Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age ...

Before the eruption, scientists saw a wide variety of ocean life around the Tica hydrothermal vent. Andrew Wozniak For the first time, scientists have witnessed an active seafloor volcanic eruption ...

Seafloor lava rubble stores far more carbon than solid rock, revealing a long-overlooked carbon sink shaping Earth’s climate over time.