Yellowstone Park is a popular destination for geology field trips. It’s easy to see why — the dynamic landscape contains a ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

With 28 National parks in California, you can truly find something for everyone to see and enjoy. California National Pa ...

A new study has found surprising evidence of large bodies of magma lurking beneath long-dormant volcanoes in the Cascade ...

Around 900 years ago, a volcano – which has come to be called Sunset Crater – erupted and transformed the encircling area. Geologic features like cinders, lava rock and lava flow compose this ...

Many are familiar with the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD that destroyed Pompeii. But centuries earlier, Vesuvius also sent ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most deadly volcanic events in history. Now, scientists have revealed ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano began a new series of eruptions in December 2024. The world's most active volcano, located in Kilauea, Hawaii, resumed its latest eruption on Wednesday. Volcanic activity ...

MANILA, Philippines — Taal Volcano in Batangas had a phreatic eruption Wednesday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported. In its latest update ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen—drawing on research of 60,000 years of volcanic activity derived from ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica—have re-contextualized an ancient ...

Some of the volcanic rocks are up to 6 million years old, while others were left by eruptions that happened as recently as a few thousand years ago, according to the Global Volcanism Program at ...