For decades, volcanologists have compared their craft to weather forecasting stuck in the 1950s: plenty of instruments, not nearly enough certainty. That gap is narrowing faster than most people ...

Since early May, an undersea volcano has been erupting in the Bismarck Sea, along a feature that scientists call the Titan Ridge. It’s in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, just off the north coast of ...

Population models suggest the Kikai-Akahoya eruption brought severe regional decline alongside continued growth on some ...

The volcano on Indonesia's Halmahera Island routinely ejects ash, volcanic gases, and volcanic bombs. In May 2026, the Global Volcanism Program reported nine actively erupting volcanoes in ...

Scientists used the precisely recorded 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius to recalibrate argon-argon dating, reducing uncertainty for a nearly 2,000-year-old volcanic event to just 13 years. The new ...

The slumbering Yellowstone caldera hasn’t erupted in more than 600,000 years, but if it decided to wake up, that’d be bad news for humanity.

Learn more about Kīlauea's 48th eruption episode that took place on June 1, 2026, and why it broke a record. Kīlauea has experienced another eruption episode — and this one is for the record books.

For around 12,000 years, the Earth has been in the Holocene epoch, a warmer period following a glacial period. During this epoch, however, there have been around 22 abrupt cold phases, each lasting up ...

For a split second, a fireball outshone the rivers of molten lava flowing from the Philippines’ most active volcano. By Robin George Andrews As night fell over the island of Luzon in the Philippines ...

A recent study sheds light on how magma moves beneath Nicaragua's most active volcano, located in the vicinity of some 2 ...

These fiery features can be as dangerous as they are mesmerizing. Here are a few things to keep in mind if you live near or ...

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 ...