Earth’s current ice-covered state is an anomaly, relying on rare geological conditions, and scientists caution that excessive ...

Historically, access to geothermal energy has hinged on real estate's famously three most important factors: location, ...

For many, the sight of vast ice caps at Earth’s poles seems like an unshakable feature of our planet. Yet, a new study suggests that these icy giants are nothing more than a temporary, rare occurrence ...

Authorities near Sicily's Mount Etna are bracing to control an influx of visitors this weekend, attracted by a two-week flow ...

NASA's Landsat 8 satellite snapped a stunning top-down view of an "unusually spectacular" Mount Etna eruption. Infrared data ...

Telluride is a Cubist’s rendering of mountains. Overlapping triangles rim the horizon; the valley floor meets the box canyon walls at neat right angles; a few oval abstractions soften the ...

A University of Bristol simulation predicts the formation of supercontinent Pangaea Ultima within 250 million years, making ...

Ilias Roussos will never forget the day he was driven from his native island of Santorini with thousands of others by a quake ...

Mount Spurr is not the kind of lava-spewing volcano familiar from Hawaii, but instead has historically ejected huge plumes of ...

The Naples area was shaken by a series of earthquakes on Sunday with the strongest registering 3.9, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).