New Jersey is home to 600 of the nation's 500,000 abandoned mines, yet the danger they pose looms large in the state's north.

The National Park Service is cautioning people to heed safety precautions while watching volcanic activity since the latest ...

Nearly 30 years ago, unseasonably warm rains melted the snowpack in the Truckee, Carson, and Walker Rivers, bursting over ...

Real-time data from Axial Seamount off the Oregon coast is providing researchers with a good eruption forecasting test.

A 6.7-magnitude earthquake was reported on the Kuril Islands on Friday (December 27), according to the United States ...

The earthquake was felt at 3:57 p.m. on Thursday, around 7.5 miles northwest of the Pinnacle. It had a reported depth of ...

The United States Geological Survey says that an earthquake struck near Lowville, New York late Saturday. Earthquake Track ...

China has blocked the sale of gallium, germanium, antimony, and super-hard minerals to the United States in response to the ...

The eruption occurred about 2:20 a.m. local time Monday within Halemaʻumaʻu crater inside Kilauea's summit caldera, a closed area of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Born in Newport on January 6, 1842, Clarence King, commonly referred to as “Clare”, was a fifth-generation Newporter. His ...

Photos and videos show lava fountains flowing and spreading after Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted ...