An underwater volcano in Tonga dramatically changed the global climate by releasing massive steam, not just sulfur.

For a pilot, the first signs of flying into an ash cloud can include sudden darkness, fluctuating airspeed, and landing ...

Uturuncu, a Bolivian ‘zombie volcano’ that hasn’t erupted in more than 250,000 years, has shown signs of life. But scientists ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

Episode 19 of Kīlauea’s ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu crater eruption began at about 9:28 p.m. on Thursday with lava fountains from ...

For communities living in the shadow of a volcano, early warning systems are a lifeline—but mistrust in these warnings can ...

A set of lab experiments involving a laser, gelatin, and xanthan gum explored how varying flow patterns between dikes with ...

The 2018 eruption of the Kīlauea volcano had unexpected consequences on marine ecosystems thousands of kilometers away. A ...

Volcanoes erupting underwater have a distinctive effect on the climate that is larger and more widespread than previously ...

In 2010, the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland caused the largest air traffic shutdown since World War Two.

In 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai volcano erupted with one of the most powerful blasts in modern history. The explosion ...

Secondary gravity waves are ripples in the atmosphere created when primary gravity waves, like those triggered by a volcanic ...