Hurricane Lane is still approaching the Hawaiian Islands, and hurricane warnings are now up. The National Hurricane Center's latest forecast track keeps the storm just to the west of the archipelago ...

California's volcanic mountain range in the Mojave Desert is not your typical tourist stop — it's a fossil hunter's dream wrapped in rugged desert beauty. While California's Redwood National Park ...

The Fagradals Mountain volcano in southwest Iceland had been dormant for 6,000 years. But on Friday night, following weeks of earthquakes in the area, the volcano came to life. The eruption is the ...

Mount Etna is the largest active volcano in Europe. The oldest volcanic deposits are 230,000 years old and the constant activity of the volcano has been noted for the last 3,500 years, especially the ...

Mountains aren't the static, unchanging giants they appear to be during a human lifetime. These massive formations are constantly shifting, growing, or shrinking at rates that vary dramatically across ...

Although Mount Rainier has not produced a significant eruption in the past 500 years, according to the U.S. Geological Survey it remains among the most dangerous volcanic mountains in the United ...

‘Volcanoes get a bad press,” Clive Oppenheimer writes at the beginning of “Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes.” However “dramatic and traumatic as their outbursts can be, ...

An active volcano in northeastern Tanzania known to the Maasai as the “Mountain of God” has been quietly rumbling—and it is showing signs that an eruption is imminent. Known as Ol Doinyo Lengai, the 7 ...

Geologists has just discovered interconnected volcanic system right on Alaska's Aleutian Islands called the "Island of Four Mountains" (IFM) after several year. The system comes with six new volcanoes ...