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Unlike more frequented parks, this one provides a playground for the senses, where alabaster sand caresses your feet as you ...

America is famous for its natural parks, and many of them are considered to be the best in the whole world. These ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

This story originally appeared in the Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011 edition of the Lassen County Times. Regional off-highway-vehicle ...

Officials are asking Californians to be on high alert as sightings of mountain lions and wolves roaming near human trails continue to rise on the West Coast.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image taken from video provided by United States Geological Survey on the USGS live feed shows Kilauea ...

USGS said that the eruption is contained within the closed area of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, but warned about the risk of volcanic gas creating a haze of "vog" — volcanic smog ...

(Lyn Topinka/USGS) While this inevitable, underwater eruption is unlikely to pose a threat to humans, monitoring the volcano could help researchers better predict more dangerous volcanic events. The ...

The disaster began midday on August 24 or October 24, 79 CE, when Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of volcanic fragments and gas into the air. A 32-hours nightmare: Minute-by-minute ...

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK – The world’s most active volcano is at it again as scientists with the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said Kilauea resumed its eruption Wednesday, marking the ...

A minor phreatic eruption was monitored at Taal Volcano early Wednesday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said. According to PHIVOLCS, the eruption from Taal ...