Visual observations have been a backbone of volcano research more than 2,000 years and remain fundamental to understanding ...

Dozens of people have died, hundreds are missing and many more homes were destroyed after separate volcanic eruptions in ...

The sudden awakening of a volcano that had been quiet for roughly 12,000 years has transformed a remote corner of Ethiopia into a global focal point, as a towering ash plume shot into the sky like an ...

Timelapse footage shows Kanlaon Volcano erupting in the Philippines, generating a dark gray ash plumes that rose more than 6,500 feet above the crater.

Frightening video captured the moment a volcano in the Philippines erupted over the weekend — spewing plumes of black smoke 7,000 feet into the sky. The Taal Volcano, located south of Manila, ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active volcanoes Sally Sennert Did you know that there are between 40 and 50 volcanoes ...

A volcano on Japan’s major western island of Kyushu had multiple eruptions on Sunday, Nov. 16, sending a plume of smoke and ash almost three miles into the air, causing tens of flight cancellations ...

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” ...