Scientists have unearthed a weird and wonderful habitat filled with a variety of strange creatures underneath an undersea volcano. Found beneath hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise off Central ...

Deep-sea vents, commonly referred to as nature’s chemical laboratories, are now discovered to be releasing rare and precious ...

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Far below the waves of the western Pacific, researchers have uncovered a hydrothermal system unlike anything seen before.

The newly-discovered ecosystem surrounding a hydrothermal vent could give scientists clues as to how life began on Earth.

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Roadside Springs thermal area is a collection of distinct areas of altered rock and hydrothermal features. The new steam vent is at the ...

Destruction of key hydrothermal vents by deep-sea mining could have knock-on impacts for vent fields hundreds of kilometers away, suggests a new paper published in Ecology and Evolution. The study, ...

Hydrothermal vents have been identified as a previously undiscovered source of dissolved black carbon in the oceans, furthering the understanding of the role of oceans as a carbon sink. Hydrothermal ...

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