Increased volcanic activity in Greece’s famed tourist hotspot of Santorini has prompted the country’s civil protection minister to call a meeting with local and disaster response officials ...

Sakurajima volcano erupted, sending an ash cloud 1,100 meters into the sky in Japan. Officials said the explosive eruption ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

Violent eruptions have started up again in Hawaii, with fountains of lava shooting hundreds of feet into the air and toxic gas belching from the crater.

An increase in seismic activity has prompted predictions that a mile-wide submarine volcano named the Axial Seamount will ...

One of the world’s most active volcanoes, located in Kilauea, Hawaii, erupted for the seventh time since December on Monday ...

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. By the afternoon, visitors to the national park on the Big Island were able to see two fountains from an overlook. The observatory said it was possible ...

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed ...

What is the hottest volcano of them all? It depends on how you define “hottest,” but a fascinating new analysis crunches the numbers in a few different ways, using satellite observations of 95 of ...

Since 1997, scientists have kept a careful eye on it using instruments that measure pressure on the ocean floor. Data shows that the volcano has been swelling, with changing rates that hint at an ...