A Bright Spot at Mount Michael
Winter near the Antarctic Circle brings months of frozen darkness, when sea ice chokes ocean waters and many…
Tropical Storm Lala is lashing Hawaii high winds, heavy rain
Hurricane Lala slammed Hawaii with bands of heavy rain, high winds and pounding waves, becoming one of the…
Warnings in effect: Tropical Storm Lala strengthens ahead of Hawaii strike
Tropical Storm Lala will track near Hawaii this weekend, likely as a low-end Category 1 hurricane, with threats…
Cascade Volcanoes Shrouded in Smoke
In a contrast of fire and ice, smoke from wildland fires mingled with several of the Cascade Range’s…
Huge magma systems on Mars existed below the surface
View larger. | This Mars Express spacecraft view shows Olympus Mons on Mars, the largest volcano in the…
A Unique African Volcano Could Solve a Mystery on Mercury
The volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania is unique on Earth: Its lava is rich in carbon compounds…
Ever Restless Mount Dukono Erupts
In May 2026, the Global Volcanism Program reported nine actively erupting volcanoes in Indonesia—more than any other country…
New Eruption in the Bismarck Sea
It’s a truism among oceanographers that there is more accurate mapping of the surface of the Moon and…
Earth’s Longest Ice Age May Have Repeatedly Thawed and Refrozen for 56 Million Years
Artistic representation of a Snowball Earth. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The Sturtian glaciation was one of the most extreme…
Melting Snow Off Shivelyuch – NASA Science
Shivelyuch (also called Shiveluch), the most northerly active volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, is one of the most…
Volcanoes Send Tiny Warning Signals Before Eruptions. These Scientists Are Decoding Them
Science is a constant work in progress; despite breakthroughs, humanity still struggles to fully explain many natural phenomena.…
A School of Mud Volcano Islands in Azerbaijan
Today’s story is the answer to the April 2026 puzzler. With its abundance of naturally occurring gas…