Cavendish bananas are under threat from a fungus that has wiped out other varieties. The island of Tenerife may have the ...

Rising from the waves, sculpted by fire and wind: the Aeolian Islands defy imagination. This volcanic archipelago north of ...

The South Pacific archipelago's 177th island is basically made up of minuscule pieces of volcanic rock piled on top of each other. It hasn't been given a name, for fear it will soon sink back into ...

In listing the Fernandina tortoise as possibly extinct, the conservation ... have succumbed to “the frequent volcanic lava flows that nearly cover the island.” The Galapagos archipelago ...

Discover 10 breathtaking images of Earth from space, featuring volcanic eruptions, heart-shaped lakes, shifting dunes, and ...

In the absence of some thing more complete, I hope that the following notes on the volcanic ... island, and 150 on the western side. It is hardly necessary to say that all these volcanoes are ...

The volcanic island formerly known as Iwojima that was the site of one of the most famous battles of the Pacific War is making history again, but in strictly geological terms. Its land surface ...

One registered 5.3 on the Richter scale. Local families with young children and seasonal employees evacuated from the volcanic island after a state of emergency that also affected the nearby ...

remote Nishinoshima island in the Ogasawara island chain is still showing signs of volcanic activity. A survey from an Asahi Shimbun aircraft on Nov. 3 confirmed white fumarolic gas rising from ...

Kerry Murray for The New York Times On São Miguel, restaurants bury cauldrons of the meat-and-vegetable stew known as cozido in deep holes in designated areas of the island’s steaming volcanic ...