(D. Kelley/UW/URI-IAO/NOAA). Discovered by scientists in 2000, more than 700 meters (2,300 feet) beneath the surface, the Lost City Hydrothermal Field is the longest-lived venting environment known in ...

Over millions of years, the African continent will cleave in two, and scientists say a new ocean will one day fill the gap. The Afar region is most famous for being one of the hottest and most ...