The trip was a chance to show off new technologies developed in the Boise State lab. What Mock did not know at the outset of ...

Scientists are warning that volcanoes buried under ice sheets are not as dormant as they look. As glaciers thin and retreat, ...

Volcanic disasters were increasing in number, but the next greatest disaster of this kind could be caused by hidden volcanoes or dormant ones.

In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world's most active and whose eruption could affect millions of people. Its mission: figure ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Taftan volcano in Iran seems to be waking up after a 700,000-year-long sleep. | Credit: mohammad ...

When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing. Such a collapse ...

The Tolbachik volcano, located on the Kamchatka Peninsula, has long served as a natural laboratory for understanding high‐temperature mineral formation associated with volcanic eruptions. The diverse ...

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide live within 100 kilometres of a volcano that has experienced at least one ...

Deep in Bolivia’s Central Andes, the volcano known as Uturuncu rises. Although its last eruption happened around 250,000 years ago, Uturuncu refuses to rest quietly. Earthquakes ripple beneath its ...

A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition of magma could drive ...

Scientists know that changing tree leaves can indicate when a nearby volcano is becoming more active and might erupt. In a new collaboration between NASA and the Smithsonian Institution, scientists ...