Volcanic soils cover less than one percent of the Earth’s surface, yet wines from grapes cultivated on the slopes of ancient volcanoes have a sizable reputation among oenophiles. Thanks to the fertile ...

Enhanced rock weathering is a method that uses crushed volcanic rock to improve soil health. Ann Leslie Davis is a freelance science writer and recently covered the issue for Modern Farmer. We hear ...

Volcanoes, quakes, and Benziger, oh my! Feel a shake recently? Sonoma County experiences hundreds of tiny earthquakes annually. The legacy of volcanoes has shaped the county’s hills and its fertile ...

On some level, it seems a little nuts to make wine on the slopes of a volcano. After all, Sicily's Mount Etna has erupted four times in the past 10 years; the Cumbre Vieja volcano in Spain's Canary ...

Nestled on the slopes of Earth’s geological gems, volcano vineyards have been around for ages (some date back thousands of years). Industrious vintners located in these hotspots discovered that grapes ...

In September 2018, a wildfire burned nearly two thousand hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano, an ecologically significant area in the Peruvian Andes. Unlike Mediterranean ecosystems, ...