Just beyond the eerie dunes that make up the Mojave Desert’s Devils Playground, a glaringly white dome rises up out of the ground. Poised atop a 150-foot cinder cone in Newberry Springs, the ...

Scientists will tell you that Amboy Crater, a volcanic cinder cone out in the Mojave Desert, has been dormant for maybe 10,000 years, but that doesn’t take into consideration its 1959 eruption that ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Late local broadcast legend Huell Howser's house, which sits atop a volcano in the Mojave Desert, is up for sale. Howser, who died two years ago, decorated the one-of-a-kind ...

Driving South on California Highway 86 along the Salton Sea's barren, white shores, travelers are tempted to imagine themselves on another planet. The surreal vista of the Santa Rosa mountains, ...

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More than 1,400 volcanoes dot the Southwestern United States. At least three erupted in the past 1,000 years, which is practically yesterday in geologic time. Experts and disaster officials are ...

From the archive: This story first published in September 2016. Just beyond the eerie dunes that make up the Mojave Desert’s Devils Playground, a glaringly white dome rises up out of the ground.