Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

Giant groundsels are rare plants that grow up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall. They are endemic to the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro ...

Mt. St. Helens profile Before erupting in 1980, Mount St. Helens was a steep, conical volcano sometimes referred to as the Mount Fuji of America. During the 1980 eruption, the upper 1,300 feet of ...

The volcano erupted once more at 9:36 a.m. local time (10:36 p.m. EST on Sunday), the agency said. The latest rumblings follow authorities on Sunday evening raising the alert level for the 5,197 ...

On Monday morning, the volcano erupted again, belching 1.2 km high ash clouds. The agency said a six-kilometre radius from the crater must be cleared and warned the residents of the risk of cold ...

Volcano Watch is a weekly article and activity update written by US Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates. Today’s article was written by HVO geologist Kendra ...

Don your safari hat and bring a hippo-sized appetite as you go wild with a feast in the middle of a tropical rainforest. To dine at an in-park table-service restaurant, a confirmed dining reservation ...

Halema‘uma‘u has been progressively filled by six eruptions at the summit of Kilauea since 2020, and it continues to accumulate new lava with each successive fountaining episode of the ongoing ...

The Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, U.S., is stirring and will likely erupt again in 2025. Because Axial Seamount dwells nearly 5,000 feet below the surface, ...

But on May 11, in a now-viral video shared on Instagram, Aguayo, 48, proudly made her way from the bathroom to her table at the very back of a Rainforest Cafe in Arizona. “You can’t see ...

An underwater volcano in the Pacific Northwest is expected to erupt sometime this year for the first time in 11 years — and it could stir up lots of activity for marine life in the area.