Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...

A volcanologist answers your questions about glass-shard hairballs, cooking breakfast over lava, Gollum's end on Mount Doom, ...

Life has a way of bouncing back, even after catastrophic events like forest fires or volcanic eruptions. While nature's ...

Volcanoes are one of Earth’s most dramatic wonders bursting with glowing lava, shaking ground and giant clouds of ash. But what actually makes a volcano explode? Scientists say the answer lies deep ...

Ethiopia's Hayli Gubbi volcano has erupted after 12,000 years of silence. The powerful explosion sent ash plumes soaring kilometers into the atmosphere. This event occurred in the remote Afar region.

On the flanks of Washington State Mount Rainier, a spike in seismic rumbling has revived an old, unsettling question for the Pacific Northwest: what happens when the region’s most dangerous volcano ...

Diego Pavia led Vanderbilt football to its first 10-win season. Here's why he was named The Tennessean's 2025 Sportsperson of ...

Research shows how microbes quickly colonize fresh lava, revealing how life rebuilds itself and offering clues for life on ...

Here’s how a cliff-clinging population on a remote volcanic stack rewrote extinction for one of the world’s rarest insects.

PFAS has been linked to numerous health issues and is one of the most persistent problems in the environment. The materials ...

Dan Parker runs through how the performance of different handicap golfers compares, with help from Shot Scope data ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.