volcanoes

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia—One of Russia's most active volcanoes erupted on the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Tuesday, shooting a vast cloud of ash far into the sky that smothered villages in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska—Diminished earthquake activity led authorities to reduce the warning levels at two volcanoes on an uninhabited island ...

This documentary is a scenic expedition through Iceland's majestic volcanoes, seething geysers, powerful waterfalls, threatening fjords, and almighty ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska—Three remote Alaska volcanoes are in various states of eruption, one producing lava and the other two ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo—An earthquake measuring a magnitude 5.3 rocked the borderlands between Rwanda and Congo on ...

Spectacular images of recent volcanic eruptions in Hawaii are a little disheartening—especially given news reports suggesting there is ...

In the past two months, more than 130 small earthquakes have trembled beneath Mount St. Helens, the site ...

Hundreds of thousands of years of volcanic eruptions in India—accelerated by a massive asteroid impact 66 million years ...

Eruptions of ash at five volcanoes shrouded the skies over parts of the Indonesian archipelago Wednesday, forcing three ...

Scientists have discovered concrete-like rock in a dormant volcano in Italy, and say it may explain why the ...

The eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980 was not a one-day event. It had been ...

To make their discovery scientists analysed the vibrations made by earthquakes that passed beneath the volcano.

The "warming hiatus" that has occurred over the last 15 years has been caused in part by small ...

A definitive geological timeline shows that a series of massive volcanic explosions 66 million years ago spewed enormous ...

A long-held assumption about the Earth is discussed in today's edition of Science, as Don L. Anderson, an ...

Volcanic eruptions are as old as the planet itself. They inspire awe, curiosity and fear and demonstrate the ...

A look at our world through local headlines on May 3, 2014: "Spanish romantic nicknames for lovers," "Extraordinary ...

You can learn a lot about volcanoes by studying explosions. The more we can learn about their explosive ...

Volcanic activity tens of thousands of years ago in a part of India called the Deccan Traps could ...

A volcanic eruption in Nicaragua forced the government to order around 3,000 people to evacuate from nearby communities.

The demise of the dinosaurs, thought to have been caused by an asteroid, wasn’t the only mass extinction ...

A New Zealand volcano that was dormant for the past century erupted, sending an ash cloud high into ...

The enormous reservoir of magma that triggers a volcanic super-eruption can only exist for a few hundred or ...

Complex hydrocarbons inside several meteorites from Mars did not originate from biological processes but instead from cooling lava, ...

An enigmatic eroded rock formation along the Martian equator may have been molded by volcanic explosions, new U.S. ...

As Mount Merapi Volcano continues to spew, the Indonesia military has deployed special forces units to prevent further ...

A group of seventh graders in California spotted a previously unknown cave on Mars when they were observing ...