Mount Etna, Sicily, witnessed its fourth paroxysmal eruption on December 1, 2023, captured in a gripping video by geology ...

When Pliny the Younger recorded his first-hand experience of the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius 2,000 years ago — a cataclysm that buried Pompeii and killed his uncle, Pliny the Elder — he provided enough ...

Giant Geyser sent water and steam into the air during an eruption at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States. Footage shows the park's second-tallest geyser erupting in the Upper Geyser ...

Volcanic ash forced temporary airport closures, including at Jakarta’s main Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. Airlines including Singapore Airlines and Scoot canceled flights as authorities ...

Full sun views from different NASA solar cameras of a failed solar eruption from data collected in March 2024. Credit: Tingyu Gou A solar eruption begins to rise from the Sun. Then, instead of ...

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Erupting or silent, volcanoes have always captured our imagination. As volcanologists, we have seen how that fascination can collide with rolling news coverage and social media, amplifying false ...

Mount Toba was the biggest volcanic eruption in the last 2.6 million years, and some have suggested it nearly wiped out humanity. Around 74,000 years ago, a caldera on what is now Sumatra emptied ...

On land, a volcanic eruption is dramatic—columns of ash, fountains of lava, a complete remaking of the terrain. But terrestrial eruptions make up only a fraction of Earth’s volcanic activity. The rest ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has precisely dated an eruption from Newberry Volcano and discovered that its ash spread more than 5,000 km across the globe, far further than previously ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — 46 years ago today, Mount St. Helens erupted. The massive eruption sent ash and steam skyward as the north face of the mountain collapsed, sliding into the North Fork Toutle ...