Since the volcanic eruptions of 2021, a luxury tourism industry has grown around the appetite for rugged exploration in ...

A volcano erupted on Wednesday in Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula in the southwest, weather authorities said, the ninth ...

As the mid-ocean ridge widens over millennia, Reykjanes cycles through quiet periods that typically last 800 to 1,000 years before two or three centuries of spectacular eruptions—a period that ...

A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted early Wednesday in a spectacular show of spewing lava and glowing magma, marking the 12th eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula since 2021. The Sundhnukur ...

An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity and perhaps discover new species and clues to deep-sea ...

Letter Published: 02 September 1967 Mid-Ocean Ridge in the Mouth of the Gulf of Aden D. H. MATTHEWS, C. WILLIAMS & A. S. LAUGHTON Nature 215, 1052–1053 (1967) Cite this article ...

The RIDGE 2000 program works to understand the geobiological, geochemical and geophysical causes and consequences of energy transfer within the globe-encircling mid-ocean ridge system.

Mid-ocean ridges represent regions of the planet where volcanic activity is generating fresh oceanic crust and submarine mountain chains -- known as axial volcanic ridges -- as two tectonic plates ...