Geochemical analysis of erupted tephra samples over the past decade help scientists understand the temperature of Kilauea’s shallow magma system under the summit — and things have been “heating up!” ...

Volcanoes might seem like nature’s incinerators, but using them to burn up trash would be dangerous and disrespectful to indigenous people who view them as sacred.

Volcanos are releasing ash and smoke into the atmosphere on three continents. That might be making you think back to your elementary school science class when you probably studied volcanoes and lava.

A construction crew had to detonate the earth to build this golf course. That’s a little dramatic, but it's sort of the truth. It's Black Desert Golf Resort in Utah, situated in a hardened basaltic ...

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 ...

To many, the science of geology can seem incomprehensibly technical and achingly slow. But when Emily Cahoon started her Ph.D. work in the field, the volcanologist, geochemist and igneous petrologist ...

Scientists at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution announced today that ribonucleic acid (RNA), an analog of DNA that was likely the first genetic material for life, spontaneously forms on ...