Over millions of years, the Earth’s upper layers have performed a dance that has created mountains, volcanoes, continents, ridges and ocean trenches. Tectonic plates play a key role in this process.

In Lake Nicaragua, Central America's largest, the island of Ometepe lives in the perpetual shadow of two twin volcanoes. As ...

A tourist slides down the slopes of the Cerro Negro volcano. With chill coastal communities like San Juan del Sur buzzing with surf-minded visitors, the stellar swells crashing along the Pacific Coast ...

OMETEPE, Nicaragua Any local guide will tell you, a climber should not attempt an ascent of Nicaragua's Concepcion volcano by its south- ern flank. It's too fragile, and volcanologists fear it will ...

At Cerro Negro, travelers hike an active volcano—then board down its black slopes in a blaze of speed. With chill coastal communities like San Juan del Sur buzzing with surf-minded visitors, the ...

With chill coastal communities like San Juan del Sur buzzing with surf-minded visitors, the stellar swells crashing along the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua are no longer the best-kept secret in Central ...