Satellite images taken more than three decades apart show the disappearance of Iceland's Okjökull, the first glacier to be officially declared dead as a result of human-caused climate change.

Today, Yellowstone remains a place of low volcanic risk. Sure, there are sometimes small explosions stoked by hot water and steam. But it's mostly thermal pools and awesome geysers, reminding us of ...

Dec. 13, 2024 — Tsunamis can cause immense physical damage to ports, but the economic cost does not stop there. The resultant disruptions of shipping lanes result in billions of dollars in ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

Alaska ’s Mount Spurr, a snow-covered volcano 75 miles outside Anchorage, is showing signs it could erupt soon, experts warned. Scientists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory said the volcano will ...

Alaska's Mount Spurr, an active volcano near the most populated region in the state, is getting even closer to an eruption, ...

Volcanologists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory have been monitoring volcanic unrest since April of last year.

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...

Earth’s climate over millions of years is shaped by both internal forces, like volcanic activity, and external ones, such as ...

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a volcano scientist who does her work in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—at the ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of ...