New research reveals that deep mantle plumes may be responsible for thousands of underwater mountains across the ocean floor.

Over 40,000 seamounts—undersea mountains that don't breach the ocean's surface—are scattered across the ocean floor. Some ...

A recent meeting of the intergovernmental body that manages fisheries in the North Pacific Ocean failed to confer new protections for the Emperor Seamount Chain, a massive and richly biodiverse set of ...

Using a self-developed model, Chinese scientists have uncovered the origin of global seamounts and recreated the subduction ...

After 40 years of federal protection, a seamount coral community in Hawaii is showing signs of recovery. The Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain was heavily fished from the 1960s to the 1980s which, ...

A new high-resolution simulation of Earth’s interior is reshaping how scientists explain the origin of tens of thousands of ...

The Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain spans almost four thousand miles from the Hawaiian Islands to the Detroit Seamount in the north Pacific, an L- shaped chain that goes west then abruptly north. The ...

HONOLULU (KHON) – It’s going to take millions of years to occur, but the Hawaiian islands as we know them are gradually moving toward their eventual demise. The Pacific Plate, which contains the ...

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have produced new findings that may help alter commonly held beliefs about how chains of undersea ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- For decades, overfishing and trawling devastated parts of an underwater mountain range in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii, wrecking deep-sea corals and destroying much of their ...

For decades, overfishing and trawling devastated parts of an underwater mountain range in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii, wrecking deep-sea corals and destroying much of their ecological community. But ...

After years of federally mandated protection, scientists see signs that this once ecologically fertile area known as the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain is making a comeback. For decades, overfishing ...