Antarctica is a land of extremes — icy, wild, and breathtakingly beautiful. From penguin watching and iceberg calving to exploring volcanic islands and diving into polar waters, it offers ...

When hundreds of volcanologists gathered in Geneva last July for the world’s largest volcanology conference, Italy’s Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) drew particular attention.

Gaza residents are suffering "a volcano" of psychological trauma from Israel's devastating military campaign that has become clear since last month's truce, according to Palestinian mental health ...

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably ...

Pressure waves from the colossal 2022 Tonga eruption rippled through Alaska’s crust, offering scientists a rare look into the state’s deep subsurface. Atmospheric waves from a powerful volcanic erupti ...

Unexploded munitions buried in Gaza’s rubble are killing survivors and blocking aid — turning Israel’s war crimes into a daily death trap ...

Explosive volcanic eruptions on early Mars may have transported water ice to equatorial regions, according to a modeling study published in Nature Communications. The authors suggest that these ...

TORRANCE, Calif. — In a chilling incident at the Switzer Learning Center, a former student has been taken into custody after allegedly stabbing three staff members and attempting to attack a fourth.

James Sever, the man accused of planting a pipe bomb in his former landlord’s lawnmower, was charged Thursday with putting a second bomb on a pickup truck being used by one of Sever’s relatives, state ...

A collaboration between scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Greifswald in Germany has uncovered a powerful new way volcanoes give life to the Earth: ...

An earlier version of this story was published in 2024. It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about ...