An evacuation order and warnings remain in place after a brush fire erupted near Murrieta Tuesday afternoon. The blaze was reported at 2:50 p.m. in the area of Via Volcano and Tenaja roads in the La ...

The Ice Age glaciation that tore and scarred Ruapehu and Tongariro happened long before Ngauruhoe was born. Rain and fiery ...

A wildfire in rural Riverside County quickly ballooned in size Tuesday, July 7. The fire was burning near the intersection of Tenaja Road and Sierra Ellana, west of Murrieta and has been dubbed the ...

Japan’s largest volcano lies hidden. It can be found, if you know where to look, by starting from the southern island of Kyushu. Find the active volcano Sakurajima. (We will come back to it later.

Water flowing from hot springs near volcanoes often contains a mixture of meteoric water that has percolated underground and ...

Nearly 660 kilometers (410 miles) beneath Earth's surface lies one of the planet's most important internal boundaries. Known ...

From the earthquake in Venezuela to Mindanao, all share a similarity, namely being in the Pacific Ring of Fire. Why is the ...

A submarine eruption north of Papua New Guinea may be building new land while satellites track its evolution from above.

This eye-catching satellite snap shows off a "bull's-eye-like" set of concentric cloud rings that formed above an erupting volcano on La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands. The eruption, the first on La ...

The megalithic site of Gunung Padang in the highlands of western Java was constructed some 2,000 years ago over the course of several generations. Similar stone monuments are found across the ...