California is getting two new national monuments. Why it matters: President Biden's move to establish the Chuckwalla and ...

The early Earth was an extreme place. Asteroids pommeled the surface. Volcanoes spewed lava and carbon dioxide. The thick, ...

They later discovered that the egg-laying perpetrator was a marine beast identified as a Pacific white skate. Scientists ...

If Antarctic ice continues to melt at its current rate, it could trigger a feedback loop which may lead to an increase in ...

The White House says President Biden has now protected a total of 674 million acres of lands and waters — a record for any ...

Underwater eruptions may seem distant to folks on land, but they have global significance. The 2022 Hunga Tonga event, for ...

Ethiopian authorities say they are evacuating thousands of civilians who live near potentially dangerous volcanic activity in a remote part of the country’s north-east ...

Central Europe is typically not on most people's radar when it comes to assessing volcanic risk. However, as recently as ...

To be considered active, a volcano must have erupted at some point during the Holocene, but dormant and extinct are a little ...

He noted that more extreme precipitation, exacerbated by climate change, could also lead to a "steam bomb"-like detonation as moisture seeps deep into cracks near both active and dormant volcanoes.

Kilauea volcano, on Hawaii's Big Island, started spewing fresh lava at around 02:00 local time (12:00 GMT), according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Officials say there is no immediate ...

This image from video provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a lava lake erupting on the west caldera wall of the Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii, on Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (USGS via AP ...