Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.

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 ...

A remotely controlled research vessel has gathered some of the first comprehensive measurements from within the massive crater left by the Hunga volcano (formerly known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai) ...

A remotely controlled research vessel has gathered some of the first comprehensive measurements from within the massive crater left by the Hunga volcano (formerly known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha ...

Turning red-hot lava from an active volcano into electricity would be dangerous and unreliable. Volcanoes don’t erupt on predictable schedules, and lava cools too quickly. But many countries, ...

The land around a strange volcano in Tanzania is bulging ... Sascha is a U.K.-based trainee staff writer at Live Science. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of ...

GRINDAVIK, Iceland — A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted Thursday evening for the sixth time since December, spewing red lava through a new fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula. The eruption ...

By Sarah Hurtes and Claire Moses A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted on Thursday, spewing ashes and lava, the sixth such eruption since December, according to the Icelandic Meteorological ...

Climbers were forced to scramble for their lives after an active volcano erupted in front of them in Indonesia. Extraordinary footage has emerged showing around a dozen hikers reaching the rim of ...

A new volcano erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland late on Thursday, spewing hot lava into the air in the sixth eruption to hit the region since December, authorities said.

Panicked hikers were caught on video scrambling down the side of an Indonesian volcano that suddenly erupted in front of them, sending a plume of ash thousands of feet into the air. The stunning ...

A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted Thursday evening for the sixth time since December, spewing red lava through a new fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula. The eruption began shortly after 9 ...