On the flanks of Washington State Mount Rainier, a spike in seismic rumbling has revived an old, unsettling question for the ...

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

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Even a century after one of the world’s largest volcanic eruptions, a strong wind still whips up the ash that rained down on what became known as Alaska’s Valley of Ten Thousand ...

Several hundred volcanoes lie dormant beneath the Eifel in western Germany. They are typical examples of what is known as ...

A view of Pacific Ocean along coastline at Pacifica Municipal Pier in Pacifica, California, United States on July 30, 2025. Tsunami alerts issued at California Coast after magnitude 8.8 earthquake off ...

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 ...

A newly analyzed set of climate data points to a major volcanic eruption that may have played a key role in the Black Death’s arrival. Cooling and crop failures across Europe pushed Italian states to ...

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday said it is closely tracking the fallout of the massive Hayli Gubbi ...

Volcanoes that blast gases high into the atmosphere not only change global temperatures but also influence flooding in unusual ways, Princeton researchers have found. In an August 26 article in the ...

When you think of the United States, images of sprawling cities and vast landscapes might come to mind, but not the hidden and ever-present geological threat: volcanoes. While you might associate ...

Almost all life on land and in the ocean was wiped out during "The Great Dying," a mass extinction event at the end of the Permian Era about 250 million years ago. New evidence suggests that the Great ...