Seeing a volcano with my own eyes is a total bucket list dream, but seeing a volcano that's experiencing active volcanic ...

Studying tree rings helped scientists pinpoint when Mount Rainier last sent a lahar down its steep slopes, which could help ...

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Predicting a volcanic eruption in time to warn authorities and populations remains a major challenge on a global scale. In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers and ...

A new generation of climate detectives is rewriting one of history’s darkest chapters, arguing that the Black Death did not erupt out of nowhere but followed a colossal volcanic blast that chilled the ...

An earlier version of this story was published in 2024. It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about ...

The mystery location of a giant volcanic eruption that occurred almost 500 years ago has (in part) been solved thanks to glass shards preserved in the ice covering Antarctica. In 1458 a volcano ...

It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about when the Beemerville Volcano erupted in Wantage, give or ...