The Ethiopian Rift Valley, where many of the volcanoes are located, extends from Afar southwards through neighbouring ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and the Conservation Biology Institute announced on Monday that 12-year-old Asian elephant Nhi ...

The 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition will open in January at the National Portrait Gallery after a delay caused by the government shutdown ...

Thick plumes of ash tracked drifting over Yemen and Oman before spreading across Pakistan and into northern India ...

Animal care staff at the National Zoo are preparing for the "highly anticipated" birth of an Asian elephant calf, according ...

Residents living near the long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano in northern Ethiopia recounted the moment it erupted on Sunday morning after 12,000 years of dormancy. The volcanic explosion, which they ...

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. Enjoy the ...

Ohio Army veteran Leni D. Anderson taught himself to paint after leaving the military. His work has appeared at the ...

A long-dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in roughly 12,000 years, blanketing a neighboring village in ...

For the first time in more than two decades, an elephant at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ...

After being closed more than a month during the longest government shutdown all Smithsonian museums, research centers and the ...