The tiny rock among giants in the cosmos we call home is showing off on Earth Day — and just as the weeklong 62nd annual Merrie Monarch Festival swings into full gear — with another amazing display of ...

Imagine a gentle landscape of rolling plains and peaceful forests, stretching as far as the eye can see. Now, picture that ...

New research shows the blast triggered secondary gravity waves that rattled the upper atmosphere, where satellites orbit.

The Philippines has placed a volcano in the nation’s eastern part under alert level 1 in a five-scale rating following a phreatic eruption early on Monday.Bulusan Volcano in Sorsogon province, about ...

KILAUEA, Hawaii (Island News) – Hawaii Volcanoes National Park temporarily closed some trails due to the volcanic gas and ...

The volcanoes are not expected to erupt imminently, although that is only a matter of time. One member of the team told the broadcaster that the mission will create data and geohazard maps for the ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano began shooting lava hundreds of feet into the ... “I think Pele was waiting for today to show herself for Earth Day!” Earth Day fell on Tuesday, April 22, this year. USGS ...

This is what happened the last time Mount Spurr, an 11,000-foot-tall volcano in Alaska, erupted in 1992. Now, experts say it is poised to blow again. Mount Spurr has been showing signs of ...

An air quality alert is in effect Thursday for New York City, Long Island and the lower Hudson Valley due to smoke from the Ocean County, New Jersey wildfire. The Jones Road Wildfire rages on in ...

The Packerton Fire, which is also known as the Jim Thorpe Fire or Bear Mountain Fire, set 426 acres ablaze and is 15% contained, according to USA TODAY's wildfire data. The fire is burning east of ...

Officials believe the fire was started by a bonfire that was not extinguished properly, according to USA TODAY's reporting. Authorities have arrested and charged the man they believe is ...

Make no mistake however, this is very much an anomaly." Hurricane expert, meteorologist Andy Hazelton, looked over the map for USA TODAY and agreed that the mid-Atlantic is unusually protected due ...