When volcanic eruptions send towering plumes of ash into the atmosphere, they don’t just darken the sky or affect local air quality. New research shows that these eruptions can actually trigger ...

Volcanoes across the country are beginning to wake up and erupt, and no one has a good explanation for why it's happening.

In 2005, I was navigating winding roads through the Drakensberg Mountains, in Lesotho, Southern Africa. Towering cliff-like features known as escarpments interrupt the landscape, rising up by a ...

A seismologist from Seattle discussed recent volcanic activity across the United States. Here's what you should know.

Here are some key facts on volcanic mudflows known as lahars: WHAT ARE THEY? - Volcanic debris slides. Lahar is an Indonesian word for the mud slurries that are formed from volcanic ash and debris.

The Eifel is a volcanic region in the center of Europe where magma from the Earth's mantle has been penetrating the overlying crust for nearly 700,000 years. The melts are poor in silicon dioxide ...

As virtual mountains formed, these animals dispersed and adapted to their surroundings, eventually evolving into multiple distinct species.

Tiny glass beads formed in the fires of explosive volcanic eruptions on the moon, and brought back to Earth by Apollo 17, reveal their secrets. Amazingly, the samples of material from the moon ...

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also influence the evolution of species. In the study, "Direct effects of ...