The Yellowstone supervolcano has been making headlines in recent weeks. There have been videos and comments circulating on major social media platforms about large numbers of wildlife leaving ...

Researchers released a few garden pests into a barren landscape destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 1980s. It is now brimming ...

A repost on the region of Lassen Peak in California, originally written by Henrik in 2013 This article began as a regular piece on Lassen Peak but quickly expanded as I discovered how complex the ...

A Brief Geology of the West,” a photo-rich paperback that reflects Eggleston’s years-long journey through parts of five ...

About 74,000 years ago, the Earth experienced an event so immense that some scientists believe it nearly wiped out our species. This event is known as the Toba catastrophe, named after Lake Toba on ...

From Mount St Helens in Washington to the Mauna Loa in Hawaii, these structures have a complicated history of disaster and ...

In the aftermath of Mount St. Helens’ 1980 eruption, an unusual experiment with gophers set the stage for an unexpected ecological revolution. Just 24 hours of digging led to a transformation that ...

From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in ...

The U.S. Geological Survey said it and other agencies were monitoring the situation and would issue additional alerts "as ...

One piece used a score based on seismographs of the earthquake caused by the Mount St. Helens eruption, which Walker sourced from the U.S. Geological Survey in Vancouver, Wash.