Recent research suggests that the Great Lakes originated from the Cape Verde hotspot under the ancient supercontinent Pangaea ...

A hotspot that is now located in the Atlantic played a key role in forming the lakes, home to a fifth of the world's fresh ...

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed ...

Bárðarbunga - the second-largest volcano in the country - has been hit with a swarm of 130 earthquakes within just five hours ...

Large explosive eruptions occur in Yellowstone around once every 700,000 years, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Unlike hotspots that create volcanic islands ... lithosphere of a stable continent makes it difficult for a hot mantle plume to penetrate and form a volcano chain on the surface.

A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted on Saturday, spewing hot lava and releasing a column of smoke and ash four kilometers (3.1 miles) into the air, an official said.

A trio of Earth and atmospheric scientists at the University of Houston, working with a geoscientist from the University of ...