Learn more about the fat molecules researchers discovered in deep-sea mud volcanoes and the clues they offer to microbial ...

Some bubbles grow to be more than a quarter-mile across. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- As a geophysicist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory, John Lyons spends much of his days ...

(CNN) — Stretching to the horizon, the gray-white earth rises in peaks like a well-whipped meringue petrified into mud and rock. A keen wind whips these otherworldly hills, while the land underfoot is ...

Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was spewing out steam. In the following weeks, water, boiling-hot ...

For 3 months a sea of hot mud has been gushing from the ground in Sidoarjo, East Java, 35 kilometres south of Indonesia's second largest city, Surabaya. The steaming mud pool is growing at an ...

The Davis-Schrimpf seep field is located about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of Palm Springs, Calif., at an elevation of 230 feet (70 meters) below sea level. Here, carbon dioxide gases gurgle to ...

Can a bubbling pool of mud really predict a volcanic eruption? That's the commonly held belief around the town of Paternò, Sicily, where residents think heightened activity at a gurgling pool of mud ...

Mud volcanoes are usually found in subduction zones — the parts of the globe where tectonic plates collide, sometimes causing earthquakes, tsunamis and violent eruptions. Pockets of subterranean gas ...