After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...

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NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection ...

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A series of recent actions undertaken by President Biden, near the end of his term, and President Trump, in the early days of ...

PARIS: In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered ... how wide their distribution is,” she said. This would map out a baseline for life in the abyssal plain, so that ...