A long quiet volcano in Ethiopia has roared back to life, blasting ash roughly 9 miles into the sky and catching both nearby ...

A massive stratovolcano in the Philippines has erupted Monday, spewing out a smoke column 10,000 feet high, after a raft of volcanic earthquakes. People living within 3.7 miles of Kanlaon volcano, ...

Lava surging beneath Hawaiʻi’s volcanic landscape has prompted a stark new warning from federal scientists, who say an explosive burst could hurl molten rock as high as 1,500 feet into the air. As ...

A large volcano in the central Philippines erupted today (Dec. 9) at 3:03 p.m. local time, spouting a column of ash and gas up to 1.86 miles (3 kilometers) into the sky, according to the Philippine ...

A powerful swarm of earthquakes in January suggested one of Iceland’s giant “ice volcanoes” may be awakening after a decade of slumber. In the months that followed, more earthquakes have rocked the ...

Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, according to research on six volcanoes in the Chilean Andes. Presented today ...

"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." When you ...

Recent investigations into volcanic activity and environmental change in Lake Ohrid and central Italy have significantly enhanced our understanding of long-term Earth processes in the Mediterranean.

Philipp Ruprecht, Ph.D., is a native German, and received his bachelor’s degree in geological sciences from Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany, in 2001. After a year abroad at UCLA, he ...

Two years after Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, a team of researchers helicoptered in a gopher to the ash-covered landscape. Decades later, the activity of that single gopher burrowing for a single ...