Some 1,400 kilometers off the coast of Chile, rare deep-sea creatures drift along a garden of sponges and corals that grow along the flanks of a 3,100-meter-tall undersea mountain. A monthlong survey ...

The disappearance of a tectonic plate into Earth’s interior may be responsible for the distinctive bend in the chain of underwater mountains and islands that includes the Hawaiian archipelago. A ...

The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) is an intergovernmental body that regulates fishing across the vast international waters of the South Pacific Ocean. At a meeting ...

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 ...

Seamounts and the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) are two typical deep-sea habitats that often coexist. However, determining whether the "seamount effect" alters OMZ structure through marine stratification, ...

The islands of Fiji and Vanuatu rise from the tropical waters of the South Pacific in one of the most tectonically active and geologically complex regions of the world. A new study of volcanism in ...

They’re less well known than Cook, Magellan and Champlain, but Tammy Norgard and her fellow scientists at Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans are just as deserving of the title of explorer. In ...

Let me introduce you to Ophiojura, a bizarre deep-sea animal found in 2011 by scientists from the French Natural History Museum, while trawling the summit of a secluded seamount called Banc Durand, ...