Scientists are investigating for the first time how dangerous the island's next big one could be.

Located on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, some 480 kilometers (300 miles) off the US west coast, Axial is the most active submarine volcano in the northeast Pacific, erupting with sufficient regularity ...

Museum experts are exploring how to bring the science dioramas of yore into the 21st century, while ensuring scientific accuracy and acknowledging past ...

Scientists from the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have led an international team on an expedition in and around ...

1a) and one on the sea floor. The caldera of the volcano on land is just under a kilometre wide, whereas the submarine volcano has an even larger caldera with a diameter of well over 2 kilometres.

Without sunlight, there would be no web of life. But then we found hydrothermal vents around submarine volcanoes, places where icy bottom water that had seeped into cracks in the underlying rock ...

All right, so why undersea volcanoes? There are plenty in the open air. "Japan is one of the best places to study explosive submarine volcanoes. For some time people didn't recognize that they ...

Prof Isobel Yeo, an expert on highly dangerous submarine volcanoes with Britain's National Oceanography Centre, is leading the mission. Around two-thirds of the world's volcanoes are underwater ...