(CNN) — Stretching to the horizon, the gray-white earth rises in peaks like a well-whipped meringue petrified into mud and rock. A keen wind whips these otherworldly hills, while the land underfoot is ...

An explosion seen off the Caspian Sea on July Fourth was attributed to a mud volcano eruption. Gavriil Grigorov via Getty Images A mud volcano erupted on an island in the Caspian Sea about 46 miles ...

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 14. Tickets for the Mud Volcanoes Tourism Complex (in Azerbaijan's Absheron district) cost five manat ($2.9) for locals and 15 manat ($8.8) for ...

A mysterious new island emerged in the Caspian Sea following the eruption of the Kumani Bank mud volcano, located approximately 25 kilometers off the eastern coast of Azerbaijan. Satellite images ...

NASA recently found an island that suddenly appeared in the Caspian Sea. The 'ghost island' has been playing hide and seek ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Half of the world’s 700 mud volcanoes—oozing, gurgling mounds of ...

The Dashgil and Ayrantoken mud volcanoes in the Azerbaijani settlement of Alat have become more active, the Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry told Trend. The ministry is closely studying the ...

Environmental graffiti visits Azerbaijan's mud volcanoes and says they are a sight to behold. The blog says that in 2001 one of the country's 300 mud volcanoes spewed flames 49 feet high. Global ...

An atlas of mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan will be published in early 2013, head of the department on mud volcanoes of the Institute of Geology of the National Academy of Sciences Adil Aliyev said on ...

We start our tour beside the mouth of Deveboynu volcano, or “Neck of the Camel.” The land around is parched, but inside the crater, a muddy slurry — called mud breccia — is bubbling gently. The hills ...