Popocatépetl emerged in the crater of other volcanoes in its current form more than 20,000 years ago and has been active ...

NEW ORLEANS — One year ago, scientists made a surprisingly concrete prediction: Before 2025 was out, they said, Axial volcano — a submerged seamount near Oregon in the Northern Pacific Ocean — would ...

Volcanoes can erupt in many ways, sometimes blasting plumes of ash and other debris high into the atmosphere or sending rivers of lava downslope. If an eruption evacuates enough stored magma, the ...

It’s winter, and the SciFri team is already dreaming of warmer weather. How about a mind vacation to one of the hottest places on earth, an erupting volcano? Tamsin Mather has trekked to volcanoes in ...

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so quickly. The plague known as the Black Death arrived in southern Europe in ...

Volcanoes have always held an incredible power capable of shaping the course of human history. Around 1,600 B.C.E., an explosion on the Greek island of Santorini likely wiped out Europe’s first ...

Over the last few decades, Volcanology has rapidly evolved from a natural science, based on primarily eyewitness observations and description of natural phenomena, to a quantitative multidisciplinary ...

A 1956 eruption collapsed much of the Bezymianny volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, but frequent eruptions since — including a large event in November — means it has now almost completely regrown. When you ...

A massive underwater volcano off the Oregon Coast — Axial Seamount — is now predicted to erupt in mid-to-late 2026, not 2025 as previously thought. Located nearly a mile beneath the ocean and 300 ...