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 ...

United States Geological Survey (USGS) scientist Mark Stelton (left) and Kenneth Sims, a UW professor of geology and geophysics and a member of the USGS Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, examine a ...

Fresh lava looks like the last place anything could live, yet biologists are now finding microbial communities moving in almost as soon as the rock cools. Those hardy pioneers are not just a curiosity ...

The volcanic eruption on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula has now reached the fishing town of Grindavík, engulfing houses in flames. Livestream videos from the area show lava spurting out from a fissure ...

It’s a simple and popular science class experiment: a volcano made with baking soda and vinegar erupts, spewing foam onto the table. In Germany’s Eifel region, viewing the power of volcanic forces ...

Along parts of Portugal’s Atlantic coastline, especially on Madeira Island, cliffs rise in neat vertical columns that look uncannily like the pipes of a giant o ...