I ‘m a sucker for obscure vacation destinations, and the Portuguese Azores were no exception. I spent about a week on the island of São Miguel and let me tell you, it’s a nature lover’s paradise with ...

If you’re unfamiliar with the Azores Islands, you’re not alone. These islands are a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean known for their incredible natural beauty complete with cascading ...

If you want to see the Azores' volcanic activity for yourself, there is no better place than the Furnas Valley. The area of Furnas is basically one giant dormant volcano. As such, the area is full of ...

Far out in the North Atlantic stretches a rain-swept chain of volcanic islands, the Azores, a distant province of Portugal. On a day shaped by washes of cloud and sun, Inês Pereira Rodrigues of Lisbon ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the largest island of the Azores: São Miguel. Resting at the intersection of the Eurasian, African and North American tectonic plates, the Azores ...

As the largest and most populated island in the Azores, this speck of Portugal in the middle of the Atlantic offers a life quite unlike any on the mainland. It’s not hard to see why it earned the ...

Dedication -- Volcanic geology of São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago): introduction / J. Gaspar, J.E. Guest, A. Duncan, D. Chester & F. Barriga -- Geological setting. The structure of the azores ...