Inside a lava tree. (Photo: Sean A. Clevenger/Wikimedia) If you'd like to see these strange fossil-esque formations in person, they are typically found along the slopes of basaltic shield ...

An 18th-century British ambassador to Italy was so fascinated by volcanoes that he designed a multimedia device to make ...

However, some trees have white bark - not naturally like birch trees - because of human-done paint jobs. This isn't a trend to make the trees look cool; after all, no amount of paint can one-up ...

The Painted Desert portion of the park lies north of Interstate 40; most of the Petrified Forest occupies the section south of the highway. A paved, 28-mile scenic drive connects the two segments.

Dear Readers: This weekend, walking along a Longmont canal, I happened upon several trees with painted trunks. It took my mind back to this column from 2023. Dear Johnnie: What is the purpose of ...

Here in 1790 lava flowed into a rain forest to a depth of more than 10 feet. The molten lava against each tree was cooled by moisture in the tree, forming a hardened shell around the trunk while ...

Some 15 million years ago, this now-stark landscape was a forest of oak, maple and ginkgo. But when the earth opened in the area of what is now Idaho, vast flows of lava rolled westward, burying ...