On May 2, 2008, the Chaitén volcano in Chile awoke with unexpected fury after more than 9,000 years of dormancy. The eruption blasted rocks and ash a dozen miles into the air, and then heavy rainfall ...

SAN FRANCISCO-Axial Seamount, a large underwater volcano about 470 kilometers (290 miles) offshore of the Oregon coast, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world-and one of the most intensively ...

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said he and 52 other attorneys general have reached a $700 million settlement with Google. Some communities were hit harder than others by this rainfall, like in ...

Reporter’s notebook: OPB science reporter Jes Burns shares a strange tale of “crabotage” that emerged as scientists aboard the research vessel Thompson tried to answer complicated questions about the ...

Oceanographers using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason discovered and recorded the first video and still images of a deep-sea volcano actively erupting molten lava on the seafloor. Jason, ...

Michael Cheadle, a UW associate professor of geology and geophysics, examines a rock sample recovered by a ROV submarine. Cheadle served as a geologist on the German research vessel R/V Sonne during ...

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June 8 was World Oceans Day, a day to appreciate the huge body of saltwater that covers about 71% of the Earth’s surface. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that our volcanic island is surrounded by oceans ...

Image: The ROV MARUM-QUEST can operate in depths down to 4000 meters below sea level. Credit: Photo: Dirk Olonscheck, Alfred Wegener Institute Three research institutes from the German federal state ...