Mount Etna’s ancient eruptions followed radically different paths, with some magma lingering near the surface for weeks while ...

Multiple volcanic eruptions in Indonesia within a few days of each other in August and September 2026 sparked baseless claims ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the summer of 1991, Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines, self-destructed. The eruption started on June 12, and three days later it ...

ONE OF ETNA'S ERUPTIONS GAVE WEEKS OF WARNING. THE OTHER GAVE ALMOST NONE. There is an assumption buried inside almost everything we do about volcanoes, and most people have never noticed it is there.

By observing the tree-ring-like growth records present in volcanic crystals, geologists are able to track volcanic activity ...

Microscopic clues in volcanic ash reveal how magma breaks apart, heals, and sticks back together during explosive eruptions.

A volcanic eruption in the South Pacific cleaned up its own methane pollution, offering a potential mechanism for removing this potent greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. Reading time 3 minutes When ...

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide live within 100 kilometres of a volcano that has experienced at least one significant eruption. Yet the warning signs that signal a shift from relatively mild ...

The sudden awakening of a volcano that had been quiet for roughly 12,000 years has transformed a remote corner of Ethiopia into a global focal point, as a towering ash plume shot into the sky like an ...