Mt. Shasta, standing at 14,179 feet, is California's 5th-highest peak, and the second highest in the Cascade Range. It's a ...

Mt. Shasta is a stratovolcano and part of the Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped collection of volcanoes that line the Pacific Ocean on both sides. The last time it erupted was 3,200 years ago ...

A massive aquifer is stored just beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades – possibly the largest ...

The discovery could have implications for water users in the region as drought and extreme weather limit snowpacks, rainfall ...

An enormous water reservoir — likely the largest aquifer of its kind in on Earth — sits inside the volcanic rocks of the Oregon Cascades, scientists have revealed.

sitting close to Mount Shasta and preserving a key watershed and plants native to the region. The monument will encompass the massive and dormant Medicine Lake Volcano, and the highland’s ...

Mt. Shasta last erupted in 1250. For a number of years, it was thought it had erupted in 1786 based on early observations by Spanish explorers but scientific research later debunked that date. That ...

U.S. Forest Service Ranger Nick Meyers recently took a snowmobile ride down Mount Shasta for a rescue he will always remember. "This poor goose was probably not going to make it up here," he said.