So. It’s December 31, and that means one thing: that the world – and specifically, Axial Seamount, the volcano lying on the ...

An underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon is gearing up for an eruption, according to volcanologists who are monitoring for activity. The Axial Seamount-- an underwater volcano located about 300 ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

For hundreds of thousands of years, Mount Taftan stood quietly in southeastern Iran, close to the border with Pakistan. At ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma – and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido and his family were working in their ...

My family of five visited Stromboli, an island off the north coast of Sicily, in June. The sand around the island is black due to the island's active volcano. We took a boat out to see the volcano ...

For centuries, glaciers have sat like frosty crowns atop slumbering volcanoes, keeping Earth’s fury tucked safely beneath layers of ice. But now, as climate change accelerates and glaciers retreat, ...