One of the most intensely watched elements of the ongoing eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is an island that mysteriously formed early on in the crater’s fiery lava lake. It’s about seven acres in ...

Scientists have had their eye on an Alaskan lake, watching an island suddenly emerge, largely as the strange result of the ...

Since 2012, the Army Corps of Engineers has pumped nearly 18 million cubic yards of sand up onto LBI, equal to 111,000 acres at a cost of $375 million. The island is a new phenomenon, formed in the ...

Red knot birds travel 9,000 miles each year from South America to breed in the Arctic. The shore birds stop at the Delaware Bay to rest and refuel on horseshoe crab eggs. However, populations of the ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

An island created by the eruption of a mud volcano in the Caspian Sea is finally going the way of the dodo, based on satellite images of the structure. The island formed in early 2023, when a mud ...

Deep beneath the surface of the water, an undersea volcano erupted this winter in the Southern Pacific Ocean. This is what it left behind. The eruption actually occurred in December of last year, but ...

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We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of our lives. And to think that the ground is ever-changing, well, that's a bit unsettling. But the ...