Some bubbles grow to be more than a quarter-mile across. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- As a geophysicist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory, John Lyons spends much of his days ...

(CNN) — Stretching to the horizon, the gray-white earth rises in peaks like a well-whipped meringue petrified into mud and rock. A keen wind whips these otherworldly hills, while the land underfoot is ...

Port Blair, The Geological Survey of India will send a team to the Baratang Island to investigate the recent eruption of India's only active mud volcano, a senior official said on Sunday.

India's unique mud volcano at Baratang has erupted after more than 20 years, creating an earth mound and spreading muddy soil ...

ST. GEORGE — At the confluence of White Canyon and the Colorado River, bubbling gas billows from a cone made of mud. This "mud volcano" was discovered by staff from the Glen Canyon Institute and the ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was ...

On May 29, 2006, a torrent of mud spewed from vents that opened up in the ground in a densely populated area of the Indonesian island of Java. That mudflow eventually buried houses, businesses and ...

The Geological Survey of India (GSI) will send a team of experts to Baratang Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was spewing out steam. In the following weeks, ...

In the early 20th century, sailors near Alaska reported seeing black bubbles seeming to boil out from the sea, each one the size of the dome of the capitol building in Washington, D.C. They weren't ...

Can a bubbling pool of mud really predict a volcanic eruption? That's the commonly held belief around the town of Paternò, Sicily, where residents think heightened activity at a gurgling pool of mud ...

On May 29, 2006, a torrent of mud spewed from vents that opened up in the ground in a densely populated area of the Indonesian island of Java. That mudflow eventually buried houses, businesses and ...