Heard Island is home to Big Ben, an active volcano capped by the snow-covered ... places left where you can observe nature in its purest form,” said Constable. While the islands may have no ...

Imagine running with a view of the Pyramids of Giza or inside the valley of a dormant volcano. The new book 100 Runs of a ...

"These are signs that the volcano is active ... some of which have formed in the last 2,000 years. "This (volcanic) system is quite recent and therefore we expect there to be activity," Diaz ...

The 16 newly designated geoparks are located in China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea –marking its first geopark and ...

The road winds gently up the mountain from the town of Lembang on Indonesia's main island of Java. The half-hour journey ...

Maui's Haleakala volcano and the rest of the Hawaiian Islands formed out of molten lava as the Pacific plate drifted over the hotspot as three to four inches a year. Map Source: TASA Graphic Arts ...

They are caused by a static source of magma, often away from plate margins. As the plate moves away from the hotspot, a new volcano island will form.

NASA scientists are storing some of these rocks for a future mission to bring samples back to Earth. As we prepare to one day send humans to Mars, these discoveries are helping shape our understanding ...

There are thousands of thunderstorms in the United States each year, but only a few become strong enough to spin up a tornado ...

All that said, the findings can’t confirm the terrestrial life theory beyond a doubt. There’s still a chance hydrogen-heavy ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first ...