The park's fire-and-ice combination of active volcanoes and glaciers easily won it the natural-her­itage status of sites such as the Great Barrier Reef and the Everglades. But the United Nations ...

Here we explain how and why the crisis developed. Iceland is a country of fire and ice, home to several volcanoes and straddling two tectonic plates. The Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting in ...

Deep beneath Antarctica’s icy surface lies an ominous secret—a vast network of active volcanoes poised for eruption. As the ...

Axial Seamount is a young, 30 million-year-old undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. coast, and it’s expected to ...

The Vatnajökull ice cap is the largest glacier in Europe and covers 8 percent of Iceland. It's also home to the Jökulsárlón ...

Canopy Tours offers several options to zip through the Winter Wonderland of the Catskill Mountains. The most extreme option ...

The event took place during the last gasp of the Little Ice Age, one of the coldest periods on Earth in the past 10,000 years. While the year of this historic eruption was known, the volcano’s ...

The Bárðarbunga volcano system was responsible for Iceland's largest eruption for 300 years back in 2014. After a recent ...

Geldingadalir Volcano: Close to the Blue Lagoon ... this beach near Jökulsárlón is a truly unique travel experience. Fragments of ice break off the nearby glacier and drift down to the beach.

The Kuril Islands, part of the "Ring of Fire," are a chain of 56 islands ... in Russia and Japan to obtain samples from the volcano and ice cores. This extensive international cooperation was ...