Fresh lava looks like the last place anything could live, yet biologists are now finding microbial communities moving in ...

Far beneath the Earth's surface, a fiery world of viscous molten rock exists below the continental and oceanic plates, perpetually churning and shifting under the immense pressure and stress of a ...

BASALT — As the flow in the Roaring Fork River at the Basalt whitewater park has climbed over 2,500 cubic feet per second this week, the park’s two “play” waves, produced by concrete structures ...

To many, the science of geology can seem incomprehensibly technical and achingly slow. But when Emily Cahoon started her Ph.D. work in the field, the volcanologist, geochemist and igneous petrologist ...

So, you think Mount St. Helens was a big deal? In the scope of geological history in the Pacific Northwest, the 1980 eruption hardly registers as a hiccup, at least compared to the massive lava flows ...

Basalt Whitewater Park has obvious recreational benefits. Since it came into being in 2017, the Roaring Fork River attraction has been popular with rafters and kayakers alike — and has even helped to ...

The biggest threats in the aftermath of the Lake Christine Fire are falling trees on national forest lands, floods and debris flows, according to an assessment released Thursday by the U.S. Forest ...

Injecting carbon dioxide deep underground into basalt flows holds promise as an abatement strategy. Now, new research sheds light on exactly what happens underground during the process, illustrating ...

The charred landscapes that wildfires leave behind are susceptible to erosion, flooding and debris flows, like the mudslides that blocked roads in Basalt the summer following the Lake Christine Fire.

Carbon dioxide is being injected half a mile deep into the ground at Wallula to test whether the greenhouse gas can be stored safely and permanently in ancient basalt flows. Over four weeks, more than ...

BASALT, Colorado – Crews were put on standby Tuesday to place sandbags along the Roaring Fork and Fryingpan rivers in Basalt, and law enforcement agencies prepared plans to evacuate two mobile home ...