In the year 946 CE, the Changbaishan-Tianchi volcano, on the border between China and North Korea, erupted ferociously. The eruption released dozens of cubic...
While working under Erika Rader, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences at University of Idaho, a postdoctoral researcher identified...
Scientists often seek answers to humanity's most pressing challenges in nature. When it comes to global warming, geological history offers a unique, long-term perspective.
Earth's geological...
Scientists from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography have detected geochemical signatures of magma pooling and melting beneath the subsurface during the "Fagradalsfjall...
After 800 years of calm, volcanoes have awakened in the Reykjanes Peninsula of Iceland — about 56 kilometers (35 miles) south of the nation’s capital,...
Video footage of Iceland's 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption is providing researchers from the University of Cambridge with rare, up-close observations of volcanic ash clouds—information that...
Heavy rain washed volcanic mud and debris through a village in the central Philippines on Wednesday, two days after a nearby volcano erupted.
Mount Kanlaon...
New research into molten rock 20km below the Earth's surface could help save lives by improving the prediction of volcanic activity.
Volcanic eruptions pose significant...
The explosion of the underwater volcano Kolumbo in the Aegean Sea in 1650 triggered a destructive tsunami that was described by historical eye witnesses....
Thousands of earthquakes in recent weeks have shaken the Icelandic fishing town of Grindavík, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southwest of the capital Reykjavik....
