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Volcanoes

San Jacinto, Nicaragua

Boiling Mud Pools of San Jacinto

Volcanic activity causes small pools of super-heated mud to boil furiously.

The memorial.

Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe

Fort Delgrès Memorial

A stone circle on the slopes of a Caribbean volcano commemorates the leader of an anti-slavery uprising.

A robot plunged deep into the ocean to map the erupted lava (in red) around the Havre caldera.

What We Can Learn From Mapping a Massive Underwater Volcano

Researchers sent an autonomous underwater vehicle and a robot to study Havre, which erupted in 2012.

Jessica Leigh Hester January 11, 2018

Inside the lava tube.

San Bernardino County, California

Mojave Lava Tube

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

Old Station, California

Painted Dunes

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

The Green Lagoon.

Green Lagoon

This beautifully verdant lagoon is tucked below a massive volcano in a crater atop a black pebble beach.

Onsted, Michigan

Prehistoric Forest Amusement Park

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

Palouse Falls in eastern Washington.

Volcanic Eruptions That Shaped Oregon May Have Had a Chilling Effect

A massive amount of sulfur gas probably impacted climate around the world.

Kelsey Kennedy October 11, 2017

Apollo 15 astronauts collected the samples now analyzed.

Found: Evidence the Moon Had an Atmosphere for 70 Million Years

It would have been at its thickest about 3.5 billon years ago.

Sarah Laskow October 9, 2017

The rose garden.

Panajachel, Guatemala

Atitlan Antique Rose Garden

A collection of heirloom roses tucked in a spectacularly beautiful botanical garden on Lake Atitlan.

Eastern coast of guatemala, showing what was ehne British honduras (Now Belize).

Guatemala City, Guatemala

Mapa en Relieve

An impressive century-old, to-scale topographical map of Guatemala.

<em>White Terraces, Rotomahana</em>, by Charles Blomfield, 1897.

The Quest to Rediscover New Zealand's Lost Pink and White Terraces

A German diary from 1859 might point the way to a geothermal wonder buried by a volcanic eruption.

Kelsey Kennedy September 6, 2017

The newly described volcanoes are under the ice from the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Peninsula, on the left side of this composite satellite image.

Antarctica's Ice Hides 91 Newly Described Volcanoes

And one of the largest proteins ever discovered.

Kelsey Kennedy August 14, 2017

Garnet Hill Rockhound Area

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Oregon Made (Probably) the World's Biggest Baking-Soda-and-Vinegar Volcano

It was the fizz heard 'round the world.

Cara Giaimo July 26, 2017

Tumuli near Byaduk

Byaduk, Australia

Tumuli Lava Blisters

These naturally occurring but rare geological formations are each about the size of a small house.

Parícutin, c. 1949

So You Want to Buy a Volcano

History shows you're not alone.

Michael Waters June 22, 2017

Mt. St. Helens erupting.

Found: Never-Developed Photos of Mount St. Helens Erupting

Photographer Kati Dimoff found the film at a Portland Goodwill.

Sarah Laskow June 15, 2017