Where Volcanoes Are Born Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as ...

Scientists from Mexico’s National Autonomous University have created the first three-dimensional image of the Popocatépetl ...

Scientists start to solve mystery of what’s inside Mexico’s ‘majestic’ giant volcano - Most of the world’s volcanoes that ...

My studying three eruptions at the Fagradalsfjall Volcano in Iceland, the team was able to show predictable and rapid microbe ...

A dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted after 10,000 years of silence. This event shows how the world's little-known volcanoes ...

Tephra formed by lava fountains during the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption has created a new puʻu, or hill, southwest of Halemaʻumaʻu Crater and visible from the public viewing areas around Kīlauea ...

In ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, or the Hawaiian language, we might call them puahiohio, or whirlwinds. In meteorological terms, these ...

HONOLULU — Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display of molten ...

The 1815 eruption produced 60 megatons of sulfur, and as a result, average global temperatures dropped by around 3°C (5.4°F).

A big, messy surprise greeted Yellowstone National Park early Saturday morning, just as winter officially began. At around ...

The Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island shot lava fountains as high as 1,400 feet into the air, the USGS reported.

Often spotted by onlookers in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, or even by YouTube livestream viewers, the long, ashy gray or ...