Note: This is the fourth in a series of six Guest Opinions commemorating the Craters of the Moon National Monument Centennial. While southern Idaho’s vast Snake River Plain is lauded and renowned ...

Fast-moving lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano forced new emergency evacuations Tuesday night. One of the most active fissures is producing massive lava flows that have cut off major highways, shut ...

Fresh lava looks like the last place anything could live, yet biologists are now finding microbial communities moving in ...

Ragna Róbertsdóttir, "Untitled" (1987), manila rope, linen, slates, 16 1/2 x 9 1/4 x 78 3/4 inches. Left H: 14 inches, Right H: 16 1/2 inches (all images courtesy the artist and i8 Gallery, Reykjavík.

Months before the Geldingadalir volcano erupted in 2021, Iceland's volcanologists knew it was coming. A subterranean serpent of magma was coiling through the depths looking for a way out. As the magma ...

A journey to the Moon is an arduous one, even if this 'Moon' is located here on Earth, 2600 metres above sea level, directly on Mount Etna. A heavy transporter winds its way slowly and laboriously ...

LARAMIE – The Medicine Bow National Forest will host an annual public open house to discuss ongoing implementation of the Landscape Vegetation Analysis (LaVA) project from 6 to 8 p.m. May 22. The open ...

When you first land at Lanzarote airport, you could be forgiven for thinking the pilot got rather ambitious, and diverted to the moon. The landscape of this Canary Island is unique, a skyline stuffed ...

PAHOA, Hawaii — Millions of people seeing images of lava destroying homes, cars and power poles have a simple question: Why can’t you stop it? Try spraying lava with water, some suggest. Maybe dig a ...