A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas carrying the bubonic plague.

A dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted after 10,000 years of silence. This event shows how the world's little-known volcanoes ...

A rare underwater eruption at Hunga Tonga sent water vapor into Earth’s atmosphere, cooling the stratosphere and reshaping ...

The ground beneath our feet never felt more restless. Something's happening around the massive horseshoe that circles the ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...

A muddy eruption at Yellowstone National Park was just captured on camera in an area that has been closed to the public for ...

Data from Axial, the most-monitored underwater volcano, are helping geophysicists hone eruption predictions. For Axial, 2026 ...

“This process can be likened to a bottle of sparkling water containing dissolved volatiles that exolve when the bottle is ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...

The Tolbachik volcano, located on the Kamchatka Peninsula, has long served as a natural laboratory for understanding high‐temperature mineral formation associated with volcanic eruptions. The diverse ...

Tephra formed by lava fountains during the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption has created a new puʻu, or hill, southwest of Halemaʻumaʻu Crater and visible from the public viewing areas around Kīlauea ...

Flights have been cancelled and journeys severely delayed after an Indonesian volcano near Bali erupted on Monday, sending volcanic ash 11 miles into the air. The eruption comes weeks after the same ...