Mount Shasta, in Northern California, is a massive snowcapped volcano surrounded by miles of pristine national forest. Legends, myths and entire religious movements have centered on its secrets.

“The map’s details do show a volcano, but they show it right on the coast, where there are clearly no volcanoes,” Ball says. Nearly all of California’s 16 volcanoes sit nestled along ...

Shasta’s glaciers have lost more than 50 percent of their volume and area in this 21st century, with 2021 as the largest year of volume loss.

MOUNT SHASTA casts an aura of power over an entire landscape. That is why people try to reach the 14,162-foot summit. The success rate is about 50 percent, as high-elevation weather is usually the ...

Evacuation warnings were issued Tuesday night north of Mount Shasta as Whitney Creek rose quickly. The warning area, indicated in yellow on the Zonehaven map below, includes rural neighborhoods in ...

The satellite spotted the mountain "poking its head through the layer of #wildfire #smoke and clouds across northern California yesterday," NOAA tweeted. "With an elevation of more than 14,000 ft ...

Government scientists are classifying 18 U.S. volcanoes as a “very high threat” because of what’s been happening inside them and how close they are to people.