The Volcano of the Canary Islands that Threatens to Awaken: a Mountain of 1,600 Meters that Is Altering the Ocean

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A scientific team from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), from the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), an agency attached to the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, has obtained the first evidence of hydrothermal activity in the submarine volcano Enmedio, located more than 1,600 meters deep between Tenerife and Gran Canaria. Its conical structure forms a kind of mountain, whose base, with a diameter of 3.5 kilom…