If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

Here’s hoping it’s nothing to blow your lid over. A normally quiet “high threat” volcano in Washington state has been rumbling at a record rate — prompting an alert from geologists who ...

New Jersey was once home to a fiery volcano roughly the size of Mount St. Helens – that sits in the same county as a newly mapped fault line. Rutan Hill, in Wantage, NJ, appears to be and is ...

That’s about when the Beemerville Volcano erupted in Wantage, give or take six million years, according to geologists. So much about New Jersey is familiar — the Jersey Shore, traffic jug ...

Florida State University Assistant Professor of Geology, Emily Stewart, has conducted new research that questions the ...

Among the snow-capped volcanoes of the Pacific Northwest, Mount Adams gets relatively little love. There are more glamorous volcanoes to climb (Mount Rainier) or to ski (Mount Hood) or that have ...

Maumere, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency said Monday that at least 10 people have died as a series of volcanic eruptions widens on the remote island of Flores.

Sep. 24, 2024 — A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could offer a new way to source these in-demand metals ...

These biofilms are just remarkable. They may be the ultimate system to study to understand our planet' UConn Department of ...

Volcanologist Michelle Parks of the Icelandic Meteorological Office is one of a team of scientists trying to determine whether the retreat of glaciers could boost volcanic activity in Iceland.

The oldest parts of the island were formed by volcanic eruptions that took place 2.5 million years ago, atop an ocean plate not that much older. In their research, geologist Yamirka Rojas ...

Discover the explosive forces that helped create some of the most dynamic worlds in our cosmic neighborhood – and what makes the volcanoes right here on Earth so special. National Corporate ...