Mount Adams, seen here from Mount Saint Helens, is the largest volcano by volume in the Cascade Range. (John Pallister/U.S. Geological Survey) Six low-intensity earthquakes rumbled beneath Mount Adams ...

Across the contiguous Western U.S., glaciers are slowly disappearing, according to a new analysis by researchers at Portland State University and the U.S. Geological Survey. The study was published in ...

Living among the volcanic peaks of the Cascade Mountains is a part of the reality of life in the Pacific Northwest. But what we don’t often consider — and what many of us don’t really know — is just ...

New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies that ...

This week’s snowfall likely won’t be enough to pull the Pacific Northwest out of its snow drought. Snowpacks were at a record low across the Western U.S. in early January, the National Integrated ...