The Beemerville Volcano gets its name from a section of Wantage, but also is known as Rutan Hill. Space Farms Zoo and Museum, the region’s best-known business, is located about four miles to the south ...

Climbing into the fiery mouth of Kawah Ijen volcano is like stepping inside Dante’s inferno, as one miner told the BBC. Looming 9,183 feet above sea level, this raging volcano has suffocated so many ...

The Earth is full of riches. Once people discovered the importance of metals, they quickly found out where to get them from. The first mined metal may have been copper. When mixed with tin, this ...

For people living near volcanoes, danger goes well beyond lava flows and clouds of ash. Some explosive eruptions can lead to dramatic collapses of the sides of a volcano, like those at Mount St.

Each mineral in a volcanic deposit is like a microscopic thermometer that records magma chamber temperature over time.

Western Europe is home to forgotten worlds — from ghost towns to volcanic ruins. This documentary explores Craco, Grindavík, St Kilda, and other haunting places lost to time.

In a science lab on the fourth floor of UTSA's Multidisciplinary Studies Building, UTSA students engage in meticulous choreography around a glowing furnace, melting rocks to produce lava.

Will Yellowstone ever erupt? Many people worry about the likelihood that the supervolcano beneath the park will stir to live one day.

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been shooting lava from its summit crater about once a week since late last year, delighting residents, visitors and online viewers alike with a firehose of molten rock.

Scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have provided conclusive evidence that the Red Sea completely dried out about 6.2 million years ago, before being suddenly ...

New research suggests that a mystery platinum signature found in Greenland’s ice may have come from a volcanic eruption in Iceland.