National Park, Iceland’s iconic rift valley where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet. From epic hiking ...

The area falls within a geologically active region of the Great Rift Valley that has experienced a number of earthquakes and volcanic events in the last 800 years.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: The East African Rift System (EARS) is one of the most impressive geologic features on the planet—not to mention one of the most volcanically active ...

There are around 1,300 active volcanoes on the Earth’s surface. Active volcanoes are those thought to have had an eruption over the last 12,000 years or so. Of these volcanoes, over 90 lie on the East ...