Measuring the temperature on the seafloor: In the newly discovered hydrothermal field, hot liquid and cold gas bubble up from the sediment just a few centimeters apart. Credit: ROV Kiel 6000 / GEOMAR

Scientists discover a hidden deep sea hotspot bursting with life

CT scan of Earth links deep mantle plumes with volcanic hotspots

Project Hotspot

Ancient Rocks Reveal Hot Spot of Sulfur-Breathing Bacteria

Hot Larvae: Calculating Dispersal from Unique Submarine Hot Spring Ecosystems

Fjords Bare hotspots

Ancient mountain formation and monsoons helped create a modern biodiversity hotspot

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

The image shows a thermokarst lake in Alaska. Thermokarst lakes form in the Arctic when permafrost thaws. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA flights detect millions of Arctic methane hotspots

Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.

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

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

Fjords Bare hotspots

Fjords are ‘hotspots’ in global carbon cycling

These are figures from the Nature Geoscience groundwater aquifer paper. Credit: Wallis et al

River-groundwater hot spot for arsenic

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