For decades, volcanologists have compared their craft to weather forecasting stuck in the 1950s: plenty of instruments, not ...

Towering explosions, flowing bright red lava and heroic scientists battling to save communities at risk have become the ...

An island could form in the Bismarck Sea, north of Papua New Guinea, as a new underwater volcano erupts close to the surface.

Stunning footage captures the powerful July 21 blast sending plumes of ash skywards and waves racing across the volcano's lake.

A scientific team is monitoring in real time the signals that could foreshadow one of the most studied geological phenomena ...

Forecasting volcanic eruptions in time to alert authorities and populations remains a major global challenge. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers and engineers from the Institut ...

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Currently, scientists struggle to forecast volcano eruption events, as no universally reliable, real-time eruption forecasting framework is available. Instead, researchers often rely on retrospective ...

Volcano monitoring is not a prediction that disaster is imminent. Scientists watch deformation, earthquakes, gas, heat, and ...

The Black Death — one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, estimated to have killed up to half of Europe’s population — might have been set in motion by a volcanic eruption, a new study ...

Volcanologists discovered that really hot magma, oddly, won’t start cooling into rock until it reaches lower-than-normal temperatures. Reading time 3 minutes Rivers of lava rose to an average height ...