A hidden process deep beneath Earth’s surface may have played a powerful role in some of the most dramatic climate swings in ...

Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, according to research on six volcanoes in the Chilean Andes. A study to be ...

Unexpected methane cleanup: Satellite data revealed the Hunga Tonga eruption removed some of its own methane emissions through a rare chemical process. Chemical reaction trigger: Volcanic ash mixed ...

When a volcano erupts, it can spew ash high into the atmosphere—inserting aerosols right where clouds typically form. How exactly these aerosols impact cloud formation has long been a mystery to ...

A scientific team is monitoring in real time the signals that could foreshadow one of the most studied geological phenomena ...

Scientists studying magma from the 2021 Tajogaite eruption on La Palma have discovered that extreme heat can dramatically ...

Fifteen minutes before the massive January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, a seismic wave was recorded by two distant seismic stations. The researchers propose that the seismic ...

About 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, a mile beneath the surface of the Pacific, the most active volcano in the region is slowly swelling. Its summit rises measurably as molten rock accumulates ...

Some of history’s most powerful eruptions may have plunged Earth into centuries of sustained cooling. A volcanic eruption can ...