Upswelling ground and increased earthquake activity near the volcano resulted from magma rising from lower levels of Earth’s ...

In May, flash floods and cold lava flow from Mount Merapi killed more than 60 people ... As the rock melts and becomes magma ...

Lava that erupts from hotspots around the world seems to come from a similar ancestral magma, new research finds.

sometimes weeks—by an eruption from the Earth’s crust. Most of Hawaii’s lava tubes are formed by a type of syrupy flow called pahoehoe. As it pours down the volcano, the lava at the surface ...

She suggests that there are two possible ways to harness the flowing lava. The first approach involves drilling boreholes to ...

"Do not try to climb the volcano, as explosions occur that throw incandescent fragments," Mexico's disaster agency said.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 square ...

Severe cooling from volcanic sulfates - not warming - was the primary trigger of a mass extinction event 201.6 million years ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

A mass extinction event that brought about the rise of the dinosaurs more than 200 million years ago was believed to be caused by the planet’s warming. Now, scientists at Columbia University say ...

A revised hazard map for volcanic Mount Fuji in central Japan suggests the volume of lava flow from a major eruption would likely be double that of previous estimates. The updated finding was ...

If you cut down a tree, you can read an environmental record. Now climate change is complicating the narrative.