Mount Edgecumbe, a towering volcano located near Sitka, Alaska, has slept peacefully, offering no signs of the fiery turmoil ...

Living among the volcanic peaks of the Cascade Mountains is a part of the reality of life in the Pacific Northwest. But what ...

This year's GeoGirls program took 20 middle and high school girls from Oregon and Washington on a five-day, four-night trip ...

Maui Fire Department says the hazardous materials leak was mitigated in the incident on Monday evening in Kahului, according to Maui Fire Department officials.

Enlarge / Following the 2022 Hunga volcano eruption, a nearby hydrothermal vent was seen coated with a white mat of bacteria and surrounded by a thick layer of ash. The vent usually supports animal ...

What did the Yellowstone landscape look like after one of its large caldera-forming eruptions? Clues from crystals suggest it ...

When a volcano is about to erupt, the surrounding land puffs up like a squeezed balloon. The technical term is "transient ...

Satellite data suggest a volcano in Tanzania that expels extremely runny lava could be creeping toward an eruption.

June 13, 2024 — Video footage of Iceland's 2010 Eyjafjallaj kull eruption is providing researchers with rare, up-close observations of volcanic ash clouds -- ... Earth Scientists Describe a New ...

It is the same White Island volcano that erupted in 2019 ... all engine power after flying through concentrated ash plumes in Alaska and Indonesia. A global network of Volcanic Ash Advisory ...

POZZUOLI, Italy — In the red zone of the awakening Phlegraean Fields, the most dangerous volcano in Europe, 2,000-year-old ruins are rising from the earth, thrust upward by hydrothermal force.

I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.