Volcanoes inspire awe with spectacular eruptions and incandescent rivers of lava, but often their deadliest hazard is what ...

Estimates of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from volcanoes may have been significantly underestimated, according to new ...

Underwater volcanoes discovered in the South Pacific The post Underwater Volcanoes Discovered in the South Pacific appeared ...

Let’s delve into the potential of harnessing volcanic activity for climate control, exploring the science, feasibility, and implications of such a venture. Volcanoes have a natural ability to ...

I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.

These newly mapped underwater volcanoes were first theorized in 2024 after researchers discovered that the rocks of one submerged volcano were only 670,000 years old.

Scientists monitoring Alaska’s Mount Spurr said seismic activity continues to rise, indicating that the volcano is moving toward an eruption. The major risk of a Mount Spurr eruption is ashfall ...

Venus — a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes — may be even more geologically active near its surface than previously thought. New calculations by researchers at Washington ...

A volcanic fissure has opened up near the town of Grindavík on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula following a significant uptick in earthquake activity. Images show lava breaching the town's defensive ...

Gas emissions, earthquakes, and ground deformations. These are all signs that a volcano is about to erupt, and they are also all signs that have appeared at Mount Spurr, an active volcano in ...