Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic plates collided during the breakup of Rodinia, around 800 million years ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a large chain of dormant volcanoes beneath China, which could open up all sorts of new ...

The Toba supervolcano theory suggests that a huge eruption 70,000 years ago almost led to the extinction of humanity.

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface tells a story of volcanism that began roughly 2.5 million years ago, but ...

NOAA’s Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary contains some amazing deep-sea features: many are familiar with the deep-sea ...

Arkansas could have leased this land to a mining company. Instead, the state maintains it as the only diamond-producing site ...

The excavations took place at Somló—a wine region in western Hungary located mostly on the slopes of an extinct volcano —and were part of a larger research project by the National Institute ...

A wildfire broke out on Arthur's Seat, the extinct volcano overlooking Scotland's capital Edinburgh, on Sunday, spreading ...