Scientists fear that a North American volcano may soon erupt. It would be the first time that it has erupted since 1992. Researchers say the volcano appears to be "moving closer to an eruption." ...

On very clear days, I can see five volcanoes from my campus. They’re Rainier, Hood, Adams, St. Helens and Baker. That’s … a lot. I asked my friend Katie Cooper about it. She’s a geophysicist at ...

Over millions of years, the Earth’s upper layers have performed a dance that has created mountains, volcanoes, continents, ridges and ocean trenches. Tectonic plates play a key role in this process.

American Samoa is a United States territory which comprises the easternmost islands of a volcanic island chain formed by the Samoan hotspot in the South Pacific Ocean. Its small islands are the tops ...

Central America was wrought in the fiery forge of its colossal volcanoes. Trailing like a lava burned welt between North and South America, the string of small countries is coated in lush rainforest ...