It was small by volcanic standards, but massive by human ones: on this day in 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted in what the ...

Early humans in Ethiopia survived the Toba supervolcano eruption by shifting to river foods, revealing how drought shaped ...

A vast eruption beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean has been confirmed as the largest volcanic event ever recorded on the ocean floor. The 2012 explosion at the Havre volcano, near New Zealand, ...

A massive volcanic eruption can cool the planet within months. What happens next may take centuries. Currently, this potential consequence is a large part of current research being conducted on the ...

How big can volcanic eruptions get on Jupiter’s moon, Io? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets hopes to address as an international team of scientists ...

The eruptions at Kilauea prompted closures at a national park and part of a highway because of falling glassy volcanic ...

"What makes the event even more extraordinary is that it did not involve a single volcano, but multiple active sources." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This year, the Earth’s core put on a show unlike any other, with volcanic eruptions that dazzled observers from every continent. From the fiery lava fountains of Hawaiʻi’s Kīlauea volcano to the ...

Forecasting volcanic eruptions in time to alert authorities and populations remains a major global challenge. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers and engineers from the Institut ...

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK — When Scott and Pamela Rippel found out scientists were predicting a fountain of lava would erupt in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Jan. 24, they extended their ...