‘Volcanoes get a bad press,” Clive Oppenheimer writes at the beginning of “Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes.” However “dramatic and traumatic as their outbursts can be, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saddle Mountain is a hike that showcases Western Oregon on a grand scale. The tallest peak in the northern Coast Range surveys the ...

Glaciovolcanoes, they’re called, these rumbling mountains where the orange-red fire of magma meets the frozen blue of glaciers. Iceland’s Eyjafjallajoekull volcano, which erupted recently, is but one ...

A recent study published in Nature Geoscience examines how seafloor mountains and volcanoes—also known as seamounts—that sink beneath subduction zones could result in the slow escape of tectonic ...

Bali’s governor has announced a ban on tourist activities on its mountains with “immediate effect,” in a bid to preserve its sacred peaks following a rise in violations by misbehaving tourists. “These ...

Saddle Mountain is a hike that showcases Western Oregon on a grand scale. The tallest peak in the northern Coast Range surveys the Pacific Ocean, Cascade volcanoes and Columbia River — three of the ...