Professor Tom Gernon sampling volcanic deposits at Boset Volcano in the Main Ethiopian Rift Looking out into the Main Ethiopian Rift, taken at Boset Volcano in Ethiopia ...

The Oregon Badlands is the strangest wilderness in Oregon, with no mountains, lakes or streams. This desert landscape east of Bend was buried by a basalt lava flow about 10,000 years ago. As more lava ...

The volcanic eruption on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula has now reached the fishing town of Grindavík, engulfing houses in flames. Livestream videos from the area show lava spurting out from a fissure ...

Lava cools very quickly at first forming a thin crust that insulates the interior of the lava flow. As a result, basaltic lava flows can form crusts that are thick enough to walk on in 10-15 minutes ...

Sometimes, a hole in the ground is just a hole. Other times, it’s a portal to an underground cave spanning miles in width and length. You don’t really know what’s inside unless you dive into the void.

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido and his family were working in their ...