West Mato Volcano erupting in 2009. Credit: Image courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Volcanic eruptions deep in our oceans are capable of…
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False-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on April 13, 2021, shows the aftermath of the explosive eruption that took place on April 9,…
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft caught Jupiter’s moon Io, the planet’s third-largest moon, undergoing a volcanic eruption. Locked in a perpetual tug of war between the imposing…
Photo of eruption at Mount Redoubt in Alaska in 2009. Credit: Game McGimsey, USGS New research methods may lead to earlier predictions of volcanic eruptions.…
This image, captured on April 2, 2021, by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, shows the latest activity in Italy’s Mount Etna. The image has been processed…
The Holuhraun lava eruption in 2014-2015. Credit: Dr Evgenia Ilyinskaya Respiratory disease increased markedly following one of Iceland’s largest volcanic eruptions, a new study has…
Satellite image of Italy’s Mount Etna, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on February 18, 2021, at 09:40 GMT. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data…
Cleveland Volcano, Aleutian Islands eruption in 2006. Volcanism is one of the main carbon dioxide sources in the long-term carbon cycle balanced by weathering sinks,…
The rediscovered volcano mouse, thought to be extinct. Credit: (c) Danny Balete, Field Museum A small mouse rediscovered on a volcano that erupted 30 years…
August 2, 2019. Click image for high-resolution view. Rising above the clouds and the Sea of Okhotsk, the uninhabited Atlasov Island appears as a distinctive…
After two years of quiet, Kilauea, Hawaii’s youngest and most active volcano, is erupting again. In the early days of the volcano’s latest eruption, water…
January 2, 2021 Popocatépetl volcano—the name is Aztec for “smoking mountain” — is one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes. The glacier-clad stratovolcano has been erupting…
A 2019 eruption of Steamboat Geyser in the Norris Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park. The geyser’s first documented activity was in 1878, and it…
August 13, 2020 While passing over Oregon, an astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) shot this photograph of Newberry Volcano in the eastern Cascade…
A new study has implications for how the world might be better protected against future volcano collapses. An international study led by Monash scientists has…
Australia’s east coast is littered with the remnants of hundreds of volcanoes — the most recent just a few thousand years old — and scientists…
A lava fountain during the 1959 eruption of Kilauea Iki. Credit: USGS Scientists striving to understand how and when volcanoes might erupt face a challenge:…
Aerial view of the active vent and gas plume of Manam volcano, Papua New Guinea, from a fixed-wing drone at 2300 m altitude. Credit: Emma…
The researchers found coronene-mercury enrichments in sedimentary rocks deposited in southern China and Italy 252 million years ago. Paired coronene — mercury enrichments are products…
Lava flowing across black rocks. International research led by geologists from Curtin University has found that a volcanic province in the Indian Ocean was the…