Communities downstream from Mount St. Helens face ongoing risks as sediment continues to move through the river system, ...

Volcanoes are now more closely monitored. We have a good chance now of determining when a volcano becomes restless,” says Don Swanson, a volcanologist reflecting on the lessons learned from the 1980 ...

Something stirred beneath Mount Rainier this summer, sending over 1,000 earthquakes through the ground in weeks—the largest ...

Our state is home to five active or potentially active stratovolcanoes—tall, conical mountains built up over the centuries by layer upon layer of volcanic material. Until Mount St. Helens’ ...

At least two properties have been destroyed in a bushfire burning near St Helens, on Tasmania's upper east coast. Tasmania Police is urging people who want to check on their properties to wait until ...

LUMAJANG - Indonesia’s Mount Semeru - located in Lumajang regency, East Java - erupted again on the evening of Dec 8, sending an ash column 1,000m above its summit and producing molten lava flows.

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High winds and heavy rains pummeled Washington state over the past two weeks, resulting in evacuations, widespread flooding, ...

St. Nicholas, whose feast day is celebrated on Dec. 6, is known to possibly be the real-life inspiration for the beloved Christmas character of Santa Claus. Not a lot is known about the historical ...

Previously, the dam prevented 80% of sediment from the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption from flowing past it, and into the rivers downstream of the North Fork of the Toutle ...