Mountains may look timeless, but they are constantly changing. Some continue to rise while others stop growing because ...

Hawaii Island residents may have felt shaking recently from large, deep earthquakes. Deep earthquakes like this have been ...

Volcano Watch” is a weekly column and volcano/earthquake activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano ...

By Isabel Gil The Smith family referred to the back part of their property as “the wasteland.” It opens up to the North Fork ...

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.

Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from ...

There’s a lot of magnesium [alloy] in that era of race car, and the way magnesium is generally processed and turned into ...

Geologists studying some of the planet’s oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

Deep beneath the ocean waves, dangers lurk. Not from cryptic monsters like the kraken, but from powerful forces reshaping the ...

A shield volcano is a wide volcano with shallowly-sloping sides. Shield volcanoes are formed by lava flows of low viscosity - lava that flows easily. Consequently, a volcanic mountain having a broad ...

Over the last year and a half, the historic episodic eruption at the summit of Kilauea has had 49 episodes of lava fountaining, with episode 50 in the forecast for next week. But why are these ...

Earlier this year, the city was hit by its longest power cut since the second world war. But were those responsible eco-terrorists, agents of the far-right, or even Russian proxies? Sebastian Brandt, ...