A new international study has found that Indigenous oral traditions, some thousands of years old, hold valuable and often ...

Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava ...

A volcanic eruption in Indonesia caused a global climate crisis, and it led to the publication of the world's first true ...

Phreatic eruptions are a potentially lethal type of volcanic activity that is notoriously difficult to forecast. Understanding the complex processes that make eruptions more likely is a key step ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

In a.d. 79, the world's most dangerous volcano buried the town of Pompeii. The next blast could be much bigger.

Researchers traced tremor signals deep inside Tanzania’s Oldoinyo Lengai volcano, pinpointing their 3D locations for the first time. The study revealed linked tremors at different depths, offering a ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Strengthening Volcano Science." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest ...

High over the island of Sicily, Mount Etna smolders as Europe's most active volcano. Underneath its rough slopes, a network of magma chambers and fractures seethes in virtual quiet—until the earth ...