Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking landscapes — here are 20 that look straight out of an alien world.

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

When glaciers and ice sheets melt, they can destabilize slopes and reactivate faults, which in turn can trigger landslides ...

Alfred Wegener published his proposal that continents had moved. He presented various lines of evidence, of which the best remembered is the fact that the opposite shores of the Atlantic ...

Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is erupting with fountains of lava. Check out a USGS livestream from within the Halema'uma'u crater. Kilauea volcano entered its fourth eruptive episode on Thursday (Jan.

The basalt of Beacon Rock ... water moving more than 40 miles an hour that the Ice Age flood water easily overtopped the cider cone volcano and took all the cinders away. Those red cinders ...

HONOLULU (AP) — People were flocking to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Wednesday to get a glimpse of fountaining lava. Watch the eruption in the player above. The eruption that began Dec.

HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY, Hawaii – Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano roared back to life and resumed its eruption Wednesday as dramatic video provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) showed lava ...

Don’t be too hard on yourself if you’ve never heard of the Northwest’s most active volcano. It has no national park or ski area named after it. Its heights grace no city’s skyline.

They are known only from the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. New evidence suggests that a volcanic eruption around 2,900 BCE had devastating impacts on Neolithic societies in Northern Europe ...

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed ...