A fossilized vulture feather reveals how volcanic ash can turn fragile tissues into stone with astonishing detail.

Scientists think there are about 1,350 potentially active volcanoes in the world. That’s not counting some of the ones on the ...

Where Volcanoes Are Born Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and ...

Mountain building occurred all around the Yellowstone region and highlights a tortured geological history of uplift and volcanism. The Gallatin Range, just northeast of Yellowstone Caldera, is an ...

It’s easy to forget that the earth below us is always changing and shifting — but sometimes, we get a dramatic demonstration of exactly that, like with the recent eruptions of a volcano in Iceland.

(Reuters) - The latest bursts of molten rock, ash and toxic gas from Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii are part of an ever changing and still largely mysterious cycle of eruptions that have ...

From living paint to injecting rocks, scientists have bizarre carbon capture ideas that could help us tackle the climate ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido and his family were working in their ...

California's Sáttítla Highlands are sacred to the Pit River and Modoc tribes. And yet less than a year after it was ...

Carved into volcanic rock, lived in for centuries, Kandovan shows how architecture adapts when survival comes first., Travel, ...

The eruption lasted for just over 12 hours. Kīlauea spewed more than 3 billion gallons (16 million cubic yards) of lava during this event—enough to fill 25,000 Olympic swimming pools. The eruptive ...