Sometimes it feels like the sky is falling and the oceans are boiling, ... Read more: Dinosaur extinction: Chicxulub asteroid caused a global winter with temperatures plummeting by 47 degrees.

To truly understand how the mass dinosaur extinction played out, though, scientists need to agree on what, exactly, caused it. In the last decade, geologists have confirmed that the Deccan Traps ...

Over the course of almost a million years, their eruptions produced a million cubic kilometers of lava, burping up 10.4 trillion tons of CO 2 and 9.3 trillion tons of SO 2.

The Kilauea volcano in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park has erupted for the seventh time since December last year, spewing lava from the Halemaʻumaʻu pit crater. Spectacular timelapse footage ...