In the remote expanse of the South Atlantic, two volcanic islands—Candlemas and Vindication—lie obscured by the persistent cloud cover that often shrouds their rugged terrain. The latest study by NASA ...

Did you know the Earth is home to hundreds of thousands of islands? From vast continents like Australia (often considered an ...

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," ...

When rain falls across the middle of Maine, it slides into rocky brooks that flow into narrow creeks that meet in the Penobscot River, which eventually spills into Maine’s largest bay. Penobscot Bay ...

An undersea volcano erupted off Japan three weeks ago, providing a rare view of the birth of a tiny new island, but one expert said it "may not last very long" if volcanic activity stops. The unnamed ...

New research shows that K’gari, previously known as Fraser Island, and part of the Great Barrier Reef was formed over 800,000 years ago. Its formation was tied to a major change in earth’s climate ...

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 ...

An island that formed off the coast of North Carolina last June has once again disappeared. According to The Weather Channel’s Pam Wright, the mass of land dubbed Shelly Island due to the abundance of ...

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 ...