NPCA’s traveling park lover ventures into the northern California desert to Lava Beds National Monument and discovers a history of Indian wars and a picturesque landscape of lava tubes far off the ...

It’s almost certainly as close as I’ll ever get to walking on the moon. Surrounded by giant sandstone-coloured volcanic rock formations, we could be on the set of "Star Wars" or "Planet Of The Apes." ...

Note: This is the fourth in a series of six Guest Opinions commemorating the Craters of the Moon National Monument Centennial. While southern Idaho’s vast Snake River Plain is lauded and renowned ...

BEND, Ore. — It’s not every day that you get to stand on the windswept rim of a volcano. From the edge of the cinder-cone crater I could tell it was filled with sharp fragments of lava and pumice.

Since its discovery in 1994, the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc cave in southern France has been a rich site for researchers to study prehistoric art, featuring early paintings of both animals and humans on its ...

The Chauvet-Pont D'Arc cave is one of the most famous underground caverns in the world, housing one of the oldest and best-preserved collections of prehistoric cave paintings ever discovered. Now, ...

Chu B’luk volcanic cave in Dak Nong Province has become an ideal destination for adventure enthusiasts due to its moderate difficulty and the pristine natural beauty it offers. Chu B’luk volcanic cave ...

When humans at last reach the surface of Mars, one of the first things they may need to do is dive beneath it. Their work not only helps us better understand our planet’s geologic past, but it will ...

Iceland is a country of extremes. It’s an otherworldly place bordering on the supernatural where the threat of deadly volcanic eruption looms over all life as the country grows two centimetres apart ...