Retrospective and scenario-based analyses at five volcanoes show how warning thresholds can balance precautionary costs ...

Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, according to research on six volcanoes in the Chilean Andes. A study to be ...

In 2024, D. Sarah Stamps’ team detected and tracked a short-lived bulge in the land around a volcano in Tanzania. In a paper published, Stamps identified the cause of the uplift: a million cubic ...

Explosive volcanic eruptions often come with intense electrical activity, known as volcanogenic lightning. The team analysed ...

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On Monday morning local time, a huge cloud of ash, hot gas and rock fragments began spewing from Italy’s Mount Etna. An enormous plume was seen stretching several kilometres into the sky from the ...

Explosive volcanic eruptions on early Mars may have transported water ice to equatorial regions, according to a modeling study published in Nature Communications. The authors suggest that these ...

Learn how stress inside a volcano can make gas bubbles form early, helping explain why some eruptions stay quiet instead of exploding. One of the most explosive volcanoes in U.S. history began its ...

When Spanish conquistadors first laid eyes on the Masaya volcano’s lava lake in the early 1520s, some believed it must be the entrance to hell. Recent activity from Nicaragua’s busiest volcano has ...

A stratovolcano on the Indonesian island of Flores fired its ninth eruption in seven days on Friday morning, sending a dense ash column 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) above its summit — but the hazard ...