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$DeMMO field team from left to right: Lily Momper, Brittany Kruger, and Caitlin Casar sampling fracture fluids from a DeMMO borehole installation. Credit: ©Matt Kapust$

Earth’s crust mineralogy drives hotspots for intraterrestrial life

April 18, 2021

Global hot spot maps link consumers with impacts

November 4, 2016

CT scan of Earth links deep mantle plumes with volcanic hotspots

September 2, 2015

Aerial view of the acidic hot springs in the shallow water of the Taiwanese Kueishantao volcanic island, visible through the whitish discoloration of the sea water by sulphur. Credit: Mario Lebrato, Uni Kiel

Life under extreme conditions at hot springs in the ocean

November 21, 2019

Ancient mountain formation and monsoons helped create a modern biodiversity hotspot

August 6, 2020

Ancient Rocks Reveal Hot Spot of Sulfur-Breathing Bacteria

November 6, 2014

Hot Larvae: Calculating Dispersal from Unique Submarine Hot Spring Ecosystems

March 21, 2016

Site of mega-development project in Mexico is a biodiversity hotspot

May 20, 2014

Fjords are ‘hotspots’ in global carbon cycling

May 5, 2015

Hotspots of small swimming marine organisms may contribute to mixing

January 16, 2016

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Plate tectonics shift?

December 15, 2016

New digital seafloor map provides answers and more questions

August 11, 2015

Revision to rules for color in dinosaurs suggests connection between color and physiology

February 14, 2014

Amber fossils provide oldest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests

June 14, 2018

Experts map deep magma reservoir below Washington’s Mt. Rainier

July 21, 2014

Study hints that ancient Earth made its own water—Geologically

December 18, 2014

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Discovery of ancient super-eruptions indicates the Yellowstone hotspot may be waning

NASA flights detect millions of Arctic methane hotspots

River-groundwater hot spot for arsenic

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Hot spot at Hawaii? Not so fast