The Mediterranean Sea, today a glimmering cradle of civilizations, was once a huge, parched desert. Salt flats shimmered ...

The deadly, widespread flooding disaster that plunged parts of the central and southern United States underwater in early ...

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

One of the world's most active volcanoes surged back to life Wednesday night in Hawaii. It was Kilauea's 18th eruption since ...

The White House said Monday it was reviewing how the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine was accidentally ... "a full investigation and hearing into this." Hillary Clinton, the former ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

A hotspot from underneath Earth’s crust may have created a low point that glaciers finished carving out and filling with ...

A massive eruption of magma around 135 million years ago may have been the driving force behind the tectonic rift that split ...

A review of the security camera footage found that at about 11:05 p.m. the day before a man appeared to pour his instant ramen into the coin slot of the now inoperable machine. If I were the man’s ...

An eruption also hit the area in November, which in turn was seventh eruption in a year Billowing smoke and flowing lava pouring out of ... It is located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a fault in ...

The eruption, displaying dramatic scenes of lava and smoke, has forced the evacuation ... when the Eyjafjallajokull volcano spewed clouds of ash into the atmosphere and caused many months of ...