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In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

Credit: @ Didier Marti/Getty Images A series of relatively young underwater volcanoes has been discovered under the waves of the Pacific Ocean, some of which may even be active. The volcanoes were ...

Kilauea ash (top) was deposited where the bloom occurred. Credit: W. Cheah.

If it happens frequently enough, the volcanic structure can accumulate and eventually rise above the ocean surface, forming a volcanic island. The volcanoes of the Cook Islands are estimated to be ...

The 2018 eruption of Kilauea on Hawaii island sparked the largest open-ocean phytoplankton bloom ever recorded in the North ...

It is one of 24 active volcanoes in the Philippines, which sits along the Pacific "Ring of Fire" – a 40,000km horseshoe-shaped belt around the Pacific Ocean where tectonic plates meet ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent ... a thick layer of hot rock between the crust and the core. Some volcanoes, like those on Easter Island and Hawai ...

When the Kīlauea Volcano erupted in May 2018 ... In addition to tracking atmospheric transport of ash across the Pacific ...

When the Kīlauea Volcano erupted in May 2018 ... In addition to tracking atmospheric transport of ash across the Pacific Ocean, study lead author Chun Hoe Chow, Associate Professor in the ...

When the Kīlauea Volcano erupted in May 2018 ... In addition to tracking atmospheric transport of ash across the Pacific Ocean, study lead author Chun Hoe Chow, Associate Professor in the ...