Axial Seamount off Oregon's coast is the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest, about 300 miles offshore and just ...

because in recent months it has been the fiery lava eruptions and earthquakes on the southwest Reykjanes Peninsula that have dominated the headlines. Iceland sits on a fixed hotspot (a magma ...

Of the at least 138 volcanoes in Antarctica, the majority are subglacial, so aren’t visible from the surface. Only two are ...

That movement has now left one pool of molten material on the west of the caldera disconnected from any heat sources, which ...

Zavaritskii volcano in the Kuril Islands — a former Soviet nuclear submarine base — was responsible for the mysterious 1831 volcanic eruption that cooled the climate and turned the sun different ...

"There were 4,000 people living here," says Michelle Parks, a specialist in volcanic deformation and crisis management at the Icelandic Meteorological Institute (IMO). Some of these people have not ...

Mount Tambora changed the world. In 1815, the Indonesian volcano exploded in the most powerful eruption in recorded history, ...

Iceland has become the first new member of Eurocontrol in a decade, joining the air navigation organisation on 1 January, ...

New mapping of the magma lying beneath Yellowstone National Park sheds light on where volcanic activity is shifting, and the ...

To be considered active, a volcano must have erupted at some point during the Holocene, but dormant and extinct are a little ...

Iceland officially became EUROCONTROL’s 42nd Member State on 1 January 2025, exactly a decade since the last Member State ...

Determining which year in human history was the worst to be alive is subjective and there are many contenders for the top ...