Iceland is the largest and most active desert area in Europe, but instead of orange sandy dunes, its 44,000 km2 desert areas ...

Iceland is a volatile environment for the geothermal experts to conduct experiments. Scientists face danger drilling into ...

Winter had arrived early at Highland Base, a new hotel perched amid Iceland’s remote central Highlands near Kerlingarfjöll – ...

A volcanic eruption was spectacularly captured on footage by an Icelandic videographer. Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove shared the video to Instagram earlier this month of lava drifting across a snowy ...

Oregon’s state geologist is pitching a novel idea of using the region’s rocky basalt layer – born of lava that flowed ...

"Glacier velocity could be a valuable new technique for monitoring volcanic activity," researcher Joseph Mallalieu said.

Glaciers that are within three miles of a volcano move nearly 50% quicker than average, a new study has found, which could ...

An Icelandic architect proposes using lava from the country's numerous volcanoes as a sustainable building resource.

Tapping into History or Waking a Sleeping Giant In a groundbreaking venture, an international team of scientists is set to ...

REYKJAVÍK, Iceland — The record glacial outburst floods that damaged hundreds of homes in Juneau over the past two years are ...

New research recently uncovered spatter cones on Mars, meaning that the planet had volcanoes similar to Earth's at one point.