That’s so metal. An active volcanic mountain in the frigid Antarctic is blowing a small fortune’s worth of gold into the ...

Strangest of all, scientists have found that its gusts of gas are loaded with tiny crystals of metallic gold, no larger than 20 micrometers. Over the course of a single day, it's estimated that the ...

The frozen continent of Antarctica is, paradoxically, a hotbed of volcanic activity. The ice-capped region is home to some 138 volcanoes nestled beneath the snow, 91 of which were discovered as ...

George Steinmetz was drawn to Mount Erebus, in Antarctica, by the ice. The volcano constantly sputters hot gas and lava, sculpting surreal caves and towers that the photographer had read about and ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The scene: a tent on Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island, Antarctica. The tent is a four-cornered tepee ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ... records from the Andes mountains in South America.

Credit: COURTESY OF ROBERTA FARRELL, ZYGEM" /> Credit: COURTESY OF ROBERTA FARRELL, ZYGEM Twenty-five years ago, New Zealand researchers Roy Daniel and Hugh Morgan made an arduous six-week expedition ...

Mount Erebus in Antarctica is the most southerly active volcano in the world. It began to form around 1.3 million years ago. Some animals have adapted to the freezing conditions in Antarctica.

The first antarctic expedition falls into that ... pack-ice . . They then proceeded to Cape Royds near the volcano, Mount Erebus_ Here the “Nimrod” left them and went north, to return .the ...