A powerful 8.8 magnitude quake in Russia's remote Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami warnings and evacuation orders from ...

Tsunami alerts across the Pacific are being downgraded after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded, ...

Today, the arc is closer to the Pacific coast in northern Central America and toward central Costa Rica. Most of the volcanoes you see today are 500,000 to 250,000 years old.

Map of South America showing the change in the number of days of simultaneous heat, dryness, and fire risk between the periods 1971–2000 and 2001–2022. This is Fig 1a from the published paper.

Mummified mice found atop volcanoes in South America have long hinted that rodents forage on peaks as tall as 22,000 feet, but it turns out mice permanently live at these extreme heights.

A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils in ...

This is especially true for volcanoes covered by glaciers – roughly 18% of all volcanoes on Earth. When these erupt, the consequences can be among the deadliest of all natural disasters.