The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory spearheads Volcano Awareness Month each January on the Island of Hawaii. This year, in ...

Iceland has seen some major volcanic activity in the last couple of years. Travel expert Rick Steves has some advice for ...

The moon may still be geologically active, judging from the way the lunar far side is wrinkling as the moon contracts. At ...

The conference theme is caldera-forming eruptions at basaltic volcanoes, such as what occurred at Kilauea in 2018. Gro Pederson, a geologist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Iceland ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

With coastlines along the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and beyond, Europe is home to some of the world’s most beautiful ...

Below Mount Jefferson and McKenzie Pass is a massive storehouse of water three times the size of Lake Mead, say Oregon ...

A miles-wide volcano off Oregon’s coast could erupt “soon” say scientists who’ve been tracking it for decades. The Axial Seamount is a massive undersea volcano that reaches more than 3,600 ...

Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking landscapes — here are 20 that look straight out of an alien world.

Scientists have been studying the Axial Seamount for three decades. Scientists are predicting that a mile-deep volcano off the U.S. West Coast will erupt this year. The Axial Seamount, an ...