North of the California border, scientists just found 21 trillion gallons of water hiding in the cracks of volcanic rock.

A new study has found surprising evidence of large bodies of magma lurking beneath long-dormant volcanoes in the Cascade ...

For decades, scientists believed that magma chambers beneath volcanoes were transient, forming before an eruption and then ...

Although less well-known that other volcanic giants of the Cascades (particularly Mount St. Helens), this underwater volcano ...

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

Cornell University scientists studying six North American volcanoes within the Cascade Range found something totally ...

Shasta, standing at 14,179 feet, is California's 5th-highest peak, and the second highest in the Cascade Range. It's a paradise ... a horseshoe-shaped collection of volcanoes that line the Pacific ...

The Cascade mountain range extends for about 700 miles (1,100 kilometers) from Northern California to British Columbia, Canada, and has been built up by volcanic activity over millions of years.

The subterranean aquifer lurking in the mountains contains three times as much water as Lake Mead at full capacity.

ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS "That there are similar large volcanic aquifers north of the Columbia Gorge and near Mount Shasta likely make the Cascade Range the largest aquifer of its kind in the ...

“That there are similar large volcanic aquifers north of the Columbia Gorge and near Mount Shasta likely make the Cascade ...