A long-dormant mud volcano erupted in Diglipur, Andaman Islands, prompting safety restrictions. Officials have cordoned off the site as scientists monitor continuing geological activity.

A Pennsylvania grandmother was found dead last December after falling into a 30-foot deep sinkhole that opened into a long-abandoned coal mine. Elizabeth Pollard, from Unity Township, had been looking ...

For decades, scientists have sought reliable ways to reconstruct Earth’s ancient history, deciphering geological events that shaped the planet over millions of years. Now, a surprising deep-sea ...

The sudden awakening of a volcano that had been quiet for roughly 12,000 years has transformed a remote corner of Ethiopia into a global focal point, as a towering ash plume shot into the sky like an ...

Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass extinctions and explosions of biodiversity, with different periods often marked by cataclysmic changes that radically ...