The fragile-looking filaments of cooled lava known as Pele’s hair can form when pockets of bubble-rich lava pull apart rapidly, experiments suggest. Among all the ways that molten rock can solidify ...

One of the most deadly and dangerous volcano hazards isn’t lava. Mudflows called lahars can come without clear warning.

Currently, scientists struggle to forecast volcano eruption events, as no universally reliable, real-time eruption forecasting framework is available. Instead, researchers often rely on retrospective ...

A volcano near the Iran-Pakistan border rose multiple inches between 2023 and 2024 — raising alarm that it may be nearing an eruption for the first time in more than 700,000 years. The Taftan volcano ...

When the sixth-strongest earthquake ever recorded hit Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula last week, it triggered tsunami warnings around the world as waves rippled across the Pacific as far as the U.S., ...

A long-quiet volcano in Ethiopia spewed ash nine miles into the sky on Sunday, marking the first known major eruption from this volcano for more than 12,000 years. Under-studied and situated in ...

When the Black Death swept through Europe beginning in 1347, the plague wiped out more than half of the continent’s population, upending societies and interrupting wars. New research suggests that a ...

POPOCATÉPETL VOLCANO, Mexico -- 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 ...