Observatory leaders have assured local emergency officials their public service will continue, but questions linger about how ...

A SEASIDE hotspot is set to close a 1.8 mile stretch popular with holidaymakers for at least six months.  The exclusion zone ...

Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often ...

If the landslide at the Barry Arm fjord collapses, its falling ice and rock could generate a devastating 650-foot-high ...

Some parts of the island chain have a 0.6 millimeter-per-year subsidence rate, but others are in a much more dire state.

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano spurted huge lava fountains high into the air during its most recent eruption.Footage captured live at the scene on March 20 by EpicLava shows the fiery fountains shooting ...

The geologic story of Hawaii has historically been one of ascension. More than a million years ago, when the Pacific Island Plate moved atop a volcanic hotspot rising through the Earth’s crust ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

Risk is very real—5 counties most at risk from a tsunami. Could a large tsunami happen in the United States? The USGS ...

Can't decide if a concert is worth traveling for? I'd recommend hitting the road if the performance is at one of these ...

The Julian Historical Society has acquired several historic sites now open as museums, including the Washington Mine, the Santa Ysabel School at Witch Creek (moved to Julian near the Pioneer Museum), ...