Two stories in one. At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/04/giant-reservoir-beneath-cascades-mountain/ …. a vast underground reservoir of water sits under the Oregon Cascades. A hidden network of water cascading deep within volcanic rocks – beneath a volcanically active mountain range. It is described as a volcanic aquifer – an immense body of ground water locked within porous rock.
Stretching 700 miles from northern California to British Columbia, the Cascades are built from millions of years of volcanic activity, we are told. The reservoir is said to hold 19.4 cubic miles of water.
At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/04/arctic-seafloor-modern-ice-formationns-permafrost/ … great craters on the sea floor in the Arctic – massive ridges of ice that rise upwards before collapsing into sink holes. A live and ongoing process. Here the permafrost is being created anew over and over again. There is no Pleistocene era ice on the sea floor. No relic ice at all.
Previously, scientists, and engineers, had always assumed the ice was very old and they could lay down their natural gas pipes safe and secure. It seems like ice, in this part of the Arctic Ocean, has been melting as a result of geothermal heat. Firstly, the ice melts deep within the permafrost, becoming watery. As it rises the watery sludge refreezes and mounds develop beneath the sediment on the sea floor. Scientists, initially, had set out, naturally, to core and probe the Pleistocene ice thought to sit on the bottom of the Arctic Ocen. They found something different going on.