Iceland, the land of ice and fire, is for geologists what the tropics are for ecologists: an opportunity for an unparalleled ...

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Petrified Forest National Park is a time capsule filled with ancient trees that have crystallized ... pieces of rock that eroded out of those volcanoes. And we can see those here.

UNESCO designated 16 new geoparks, bringing the total number of sites in the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network to 229 in 50 countries. The network ...

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In Aokigahara, you can’t see the forest for the trees ... in the volcano’s magma chamber. Huge fountains of ash and pumice vented from the cone’s southeast flank. Burning cinders rained ...

Petrified Forest National Park offers unexplored badlands and fossilized trees over 200 ... believe that the volcano is extinct (though smoke from a nearby controlled burn did briefly cause ...

To these young men raised in poverty, that Virunga’s tremendously fertile soil, its trees ... climbing Nyiragongo volcano, which has the world’s largest lava lake. Money from tourism is ...

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