A long-dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in roughly 12,000 years, blanketing a neighboring village in ...

A volcano has erupted for the first time in at least 12,000 years, spewing clouds of ash nine miles into the air. The Hayli ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

The on-and-off volcanic eruption that’s been dazzling residents and visitors on Hawaii’s Big Island for nearly a year is back ...

Are we really living in the Anthropocene, the geological time marked by the global impact of human activity? And if so, when did it begin? These are questions that the Anthropocene Working Group is ...

A minor, 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 4:21 a.m. Pacific time about 2 miles ...

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

EPA proposes a three-year extension for a deadline to close large unlined waste pits at coal-fired power plants. ● EPA announces $6.5 billion in water infrastructure financing while also reallocating ...

The strongest earthquake ever recorded in South Carolina — and on the East Coast of the United States — was a devastating 7.3 ...

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After years of debate, the International Chronostratigraphic Chart has officially been revised. What does that mean, exactly? Our current point in Earth's geological timeline has been updated so that ...

A quiet corner of Ethiopia’s Afar region transformed overnight when a long-inactive volcano awakened after thousands of years ...