From towering mountains to turquoise seas, lush forests to golden deserts, our planet is filled with breathtaking beauty that ...

Separating Oregon and Washington, the Columbia River Gorge has long been a nature lover's paradise. Now winemakers and ...

A repost on the region of Lassen Peak in California, originally written by Henrik in 2013 This article began as a regular piece on Lassen Peak but quickly expanded as I discovered how complex the ...

A massive volcano has shown critical signs that an eruption could be coming soon, but experts have said that there may be no way of telling when it'll blow.

The Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges form an axis of high mountains east of the Central Valley and Klamath Mountains. The Southern Cascade Range bioregion is the southern end of an extensive chain of ...

Disasters don’t disappear when the storm ends – cascading hazards, from landslides to floods, are upending risk models (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and ...

Heading to the Pacific Northwest, Skagit Valley in Washington state nabbed second spot. With low air pollution and over 6,000 ...

The so-called earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier dwindled Friday but has surpassed the last large event at the volcano in 2009, the USGS said.

Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...

Geologists are continuing to monitor Mount Rainier in Washington state days after the first earthquake swarm in more than 15 ...

This is now the largest recorded earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier since seismic monitoring at the volcano began in 1982, the ...