Eruptions aren’t really exceptional, either: The Alaska Volcano Observatory lists 55 volcanoes that were “recently active.” But many of those are in remote areas, like the Aleutian Islands and Katmai ...

Cold, rainy and snowy when not foggy, and always unpredictable, the Aleutians climate was a menace for both sides.

Earth’s core is apparently a bit leakier than scientists expected. In a new study published in Nature, researchers describe ...

Remote, freezing, and nearly forgotten—the Aleutian Islands saw the only ground battle on U.S. soil in WWII. What happened on Attu and Kiska was anything but typical. Vladimir Putin Sends ...

There's gold in them thar hills—or, at least, in the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands —along with other precious metals. This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers who found ...

Researchers at Göttingen University find gold and ruthenium in Hawaiian volcanic rocks, suggesting core materials are reaching the Earth's surface.

Samples from Hawaii seem to contain material that passed across the boundary between the planet’s core and its mantle, nearly ...

You know that very special rock you couldn’t resist picking up and taking home? The one with the uncanny shape, the surprising colors, the strange veins? On Saturday, you can take that rock to a ...

The Aleutian chain, made up of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones, stretches more than 1,600 kilometers from the Alaskan mainland toward Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The islands sit ...

It’s just an hour past sunrise when I reach the rim of Caldera Blanca, a steep-sided hulk of igneous rock on the western ... I’ve come to explore the island’s volcanic terrain, to find ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Growing up in Rock Island, Steamwheelers wide receiver Jordan Vesey learned how to work hard. “I kind of got a chip on my shoulder like I get it from my mom, Janet Vesey ...