As much as I love throwing myself into the depths of ravines on a desperate hunt for diamonds, or trekking to the Nether and immediately plunging into lava, sometimes I think Minecraft needs to ...

A giant patch of black, fossilized lava that was spewed across the Sahara desert over millions of years looks like an eerie, gold-speckled shadow in this stunning composite of three years' worth ...

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In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday, USGS Volcanoes posted a video of the most recent eruption episode, showing two vents spewing lava plumes and assuring there is "no unusual activity ...