A 67-year-old Ridgefield man was saved Friday after a hike at Coldwater Lake became a rescue mission. The man went hiking about 7 miles northwest of Mount St. Helens at about 10:30 p.m. on Friday, ...

The huge caldera—6 kilometers in diameter and 1,100 meters deep—formed when Tambora’s estimated 4,000-meter-high peak was removed, and the magma chamber below emptied during the 1815 eruption ...

In previous research, scientists discovered that victims of Mount Vesuvius who died in the city of Herculaneum ... fact that uncovering pieces of brain matter among these volcanic eruption victims is ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has suggested ...

Residential settlements in the red zone prone to disasters affected by the eruption of Mount Ibu in Sangaji Nyeku Village, West Halmahera Regency, North Maluku, January 18, 2025. ANTARA/Andri Saputra ...

Mount Ibu, on the remote island of Halmahera in North Maluku province, sent a column of smoke up to four kilometers (2.5 miles) into the sky in an eruption Wednesday. Indonesian officials raised ...

During the Mount St. Helens eruptions, lahars flowed up to 60 miles destroying 200 homes. Lahars are one of the risks with a Mount Rainier eruption, so many foothill communities prepare.

He graduated from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland ... USGS Volcanoes posted a video of the most recent eruption episode, showing two vents spewing lava plumes and assuring there is ...

WEDDING bells are ringing at a dozen venues across St Helens – and some are not where you might expect to be able to tie the knot. There are 12 hotels, golf clubs and restaurants in the town that are ...

ANCIENT footprints of people who fled a fiery eruption of Mount Vesuvius 3,000 years ago have been unearthed by accident. The markings had been made more than 1,000 years prior to the volcano's ...