The Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile is part of the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex along the Andes mountain range in southern Chile. Philipp Ruprecht, an associate professor at the University of Nevada, Reno in the Department of Geological Sciences ...

Social media videos showed people running into the streets as bright orange flames and smoke spewed into the sky.

The Earth's mantle might not always move along in lockstep with the overlying tectonic crust—as set out in science textbooks for decades—but may instead behave differently. This is the conclusion of an international team of geologists who made a ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment in 1879. Congress created the USGS to “classify the public lands and examine the geological structure, mineral resources, and ...

Lava fountains from a fissure in the Northeast Rift Zone of Maunaloa during the 2022 eruption. It was the first time in 38 years the volcano erupted. (Photo File: Courtesy of Hawai’i Department of Land and Natural Resources) “Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and activity update written by US Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates.

A group of undergraduate geology students from Cal State Long Beach will soon take what they learned in the classroom and apply it to real scientific research — in a first-of-its-kind trip for CSULB. The students will hop on a boat in February for a 30 ...

It’s easy to forget that the earth below us is always changing and shifting — but sometimes, we get a dramatic demonstration of exactly that, like with the recent eruptions of a volcano in Iceland. Volcanoes can devastate and destroy, but they’re ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An earlier version of this story was published in 2024. It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago.

What started as breathtaking social media footage has turned into a deadly thrill-seeking trend claiming lives faster than authorities can issue warnings.