Now researchers say one of the most important lithium discoveries on Earth may be hiding in plain sight. Beneath remote desert hills along the Nevada and Oregon border, a long-dead volcano may contain ...

The $1.5 trillion worth deposit could offset worldwide lithium needs predicted to rise to one million tons annually by 2040.

A massive lithium deposit sits beneath Nevada's McDermitt Caldera, a supervolcano that erupted 16 to 17 million years ago.

New research has shown that water movement in clay-rich soils can lift stone artifacts toward the surface—exerting a natural ...

A volcanologist answers your questions about glass-shard hairballs, cooking breakfast over lava, Gollum's end on Mount Doom, ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea, one of Earth’s most active volcanoes, sent lava fountains spewing into the air, obliterating a U.S.

“This process can be likened to a bottle of sparkling water containing dissolved volatiles that exolve when the bottle is ...

A long-quiet volcano in Ethiopia spewed ash nine miles into the sky on Sunday, marking the first known major eruption from this volcano for more than 12,000 years. Under-studied and situated in ...

The Santorini Volcano Documentation and Information Center is entering its final phase, promising a unique earthquake ...

Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia has been dormant for all of recorded history. A long-dormant volcano has just erupted for the first time in recorded history. The Hayli Gubbi volcano in northern Ethiopia's ...

A volcano in Ethiopia has erupted for the first known time in 10,000 years, spewing plumes of thick smoke and ash high into the sky and impacting air travel thousands of miles away in India. The ...

A volcano in Ethiopia's northeastern region erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending thick plumes of smoke up to nine miles into the sky, the Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre ...