NASA's Landsat 8 satellite snapped a stunning top-down view of an "unusually spectacular" Mount Etna eruption. Infrared data makes the volcano's lava river really pop.

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A red-hot lava flow two miles long has been attracting crowds to the slopes of Mount Etna on the island of Sicily, Italy.

The Trump administration has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, but most of the body of water lies outside ...

The continent's oldest independent country is Ethiopia, which apart from a five-year occupation by Mussolini's Italy, has ...

The White River National Forest, a sprawling expanse of peaks, valleys, and rivers nestled within the Colorado Rockies, stands as a living testament to the conservation vision of President Theodore ...

Chinese hydroelectric power plans in Tibet threaten to destabilize the Himalayan region’s ecology and politics.

Canada has named a former deputy commissioner with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the country’s fentanyl czar.

Stress builds up until the pressure is too great, and then the plates move all at once ... A view of the San Gorgonio Pass in ...

Under our feet, processes are occurring that could reshape the world map in the long run. Africa, although it seems like a ...

I’M OFTEN ASKED WHY AFRICA MATTERS. It’s an understandable question in a world of real responsibilities, real demands, and ...

While it’s great when an app delivers some useful new functionality, we can also get just as excited about clever tweaks to an app’s design. Google Maps has been working on just such an ...