One of the most active regions in the world is the Pacific Ring of Fire. According to the USGS, this region is where the ...

A wildlife explainer is spotlighting a remarkable trait of megapodes — stocky, chicken-like birds that live across the ...

Mount Etna’s past eruptions reveal that a single volcano can erupt through very different underground pathways.

Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava ...

A special event dedicated to scientific education and nature protection will be organised for the first time at Saint Anne Lake on June 1, marking both International Children's Day and International ...

When the submarine volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai in the South Pacific erupted in January 2022, it was not only one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in modern times. The volcano also did ...

For more than 100,000 years, a Greek volcano lay silent. But deep underground, it was still growing. Tiny zircon crystals show magma was quietly brewing between eruptions, researchers report April 22 ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted again on Thursday, marking the 45th episode of its kind over the last year and a half. Lava began to burst from the volcano in the early morning, around 1:30 a.m.

The team behind "Jerk," a novel tool that predicted eruptions with 92% accuracy for a French volcano, discusses its work and implications. Reading time 5 minutes Science is a constant work in progress ...

We know very little about the processes that lead to a reeruption of supervolcanoes such as the mostly underwater Kikai caldera in Japan (pictured) and are therefore ill-equipped to make predictions.

Around the world, volcanologists are following the path of magma as it travels between connected volcanoes, in an effort that could lead to improved eruption forecasts. In the summer of 1912, word ...

The power of volcanoes to change Earth’s climate may not be as ancient as previously thought. Throughout our planet’s history, the climate has fluctuated between “icehouse” and “greenhouse” conditions ...