There are plenty of Mountain Coasters you can enjoy in New York State, including one at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, the longest in the US. The 7,000-foot long coaster runs alongside the 1980 ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have carried out an unprecedentedly detailed survey of pumice rafts in the ...

The birds spend most of their lives in the open ocean. Observing birds at sea is nearly impossible, so much about puffins remains a mystery. Ecologists like Erpur Snær Hansen, who leads a team at the ...

A little-known volcano in the remote Kuril Islands, Zavaritzki, links an explosion in 1831 with drastic climate changes.

African elephants are one of the largest animals that currently exist, and there 7 animals that are able to get bigger than ...

Though the effects of melting ice sheets on sea level rise and changes in ocean salinity have been meticulously researched, how this impacts volcanic activity has been largely unstudied — until now.

Iceland is full of epic, bucket list experiences – there are volcanoes, hot springs, glacier lagoons, whale watching, northern lights, the midnight sun… the list just seems to be neverending! One of ...

Santorini caldera, volcano. Credit: Bongo Vongo / CC-BY-SA-2.0 Renowned seismologist Costas Synolakis claimed that the earthquakes rattling Santorini may indicate the expansion of the island’s ...

Iceland is filled with wonders. Alexander Armstrong daringly hovers over a volcanic eruption in a helicopter to learn more about its deadly emissions. He then finds out about the Icelandic belief ...

The ring stretches from New Zealand to the coast of South America. In 2010, a volcano eruption in Iceland disrupted air travel for days across Europe. The eruption expelled an ash cloud 30,000 ...

Long-quiet volcanoes in the Cascades region of the Pacific Northwest are still underpinned by large reservoirs of magma, new research finds. The findings have implications for monitoring volcanoes ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A blood-red handprint is the calling card of anti-government protesters in Serbia who are staging some of ...