Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display of molten rock since ...

Volcanoes might seem like nature’s incinerators, but using them to burn up trash would be dangerous and disrespectful to ...

Did you know the Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped zone around the Pacific Ocean, has about 750 to 915 active or dormant ...

One of the most deadly and dangerous volcano hazards isn’t lava. Mudflows called lahars can come without clear warning.

What if the most telling indications of an impending volcanic eruption are buried deep under the ocean, or in a fleeting succession of tiny quakes that no one perceives? As volcanoes of the Pacific ...

The 1980 eruption cycle made Mount St. Helens one of the most famous and now best-monitored volcanoes in the Cascades. But it is far from the only volcano in the range. From southern British Columbia ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment in 1879. Congress created the USGS to “classify the public lands and examine ...

An earlier version of this story was published in 2024. It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Underwater volcano Axial Seamount. (National Science Foundation) An underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon that was forecast ...

When we think of ice on Mars, we typically think of the poles, where we can see it visibly through probes and even ground-based telescopes. But the poles are hard to access, and even more so given the ...