On a remote, uninhabited island far out in Alaska’s Aleutian chain, a volcano has been quietly building itself higher for ...

It isn’t every day that we learn something that fundamentally changes how we understand our world. But for UC Santa Barbara Earth scientist Matthew Jackson and the thousands of volcanologists across ...

Heather Handley is an associate professor of volcanic hazards and geoscience communication in the Department of Applied Earth Sciences at the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands. Unlike ...

A global early-warning system strives to keep aircraft safe from volcanic eruptions. Mark Piesing A small aircraft flies over the Bardarbunga volcano as it spews lava and ash in southeast Iceland. The ...

The eruption of Mount Pinatubo volcano in June 1991 is the second largest volcanic eruption of the twentieth century. Understanding how volcano activity may change over time is particularly important ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...

Two weeks ago, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology recorded three distinct, short-lived explosions in less than five minutes at Taal Volcano. The eruption sent a column of ash and ...

"Volcanoes only emits small amounts of CO2 relative to how much humans emit today." The truth is that, while volcanoes can indeed alter the Earth's climate (more on that in a moment), there is no ...

Volcanic disasters have been studied since Pompeii was buried in 79 A.D., leading the public to believe that scientists already know why, where, when and how long volcanoes will erupt. But Jonathan ...

More than 1,000 active volcanoes around our planet can sputter glowing lava and smoky ash, and the world's biggest one has erupted in Hawaii after 38 years dormant. The largest active volcano in the ...

India is home to just one active volcano. Discover where Barren Island is located, how to visit it, the best time to go, what ...

The subsurface findings could transform how scientists study volcanoes across the solar system — including those on Earth.