Of all the forces of nature, volcanoes are some of the most unpredictable, but some researchers think this volcano is waking ...

Learn how stress inside a volcano can make gas bubbles form early, helping explain why some eruptions stay quiet instead of ...

This massive stratovolcano towers 14,411 feet above sea level. Entry costs just $30 per vehicle for seven days, making it one ...

You might not know it, but Ireland is dotted with extinct volcanoes that have shaped the island we know and love today ...

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Europe's largest active volcano is constantly monitored for its next eruption. Scientists have discovered a novel way to predict the next eruption at Mount Etna, the active volcano on the Italian ...

"Explosive volcanism could repeatedly seed low latitudes with ice and ash, producing buried or insulated ice deposits that help explain the excess hydrogen signals measured near the equator." Ancient ...

A volcano near the Iran-Pakistan border rose multiple inches between 2023 and 2024 — raising alarm that it may be nearing an eruption for the first time in more than 700,000 years. The Taftan volcano ...

A circular scar on Alaska’s face speaks to an event that may have contributed to the fall of societies on the far side of the world. Two thousand years ago, Alaska’s Mount Okmok volcano spewed ash ...

Scientists are flocking to Iceland to investigate an increasingly crucial question: Will melting glaciers accelerate and intensify earthquakes and volcanic eruptions? William Brangham reports. In ...