The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

Beaches around the world come in many colors, from the familiar golden and white sands to rarer hues like pink, red, and even ...

black and white layers of past eruption deposits. Photo: Oleg Dirksen The 1831 eruption was so powerful that it formed the caldera (the hollow basin) that dominates the volcano today. The cooling ...

The 1831 eruption occurred at Zavaritskii volcano on Simushir Island. The explosion generated a 1.87-mile-wide caldera, revealing red, black and white layers made up of past eruptive deposits.

The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in recent ...

Using ice core samples, researchers linked a natural disaster with a trove of nearly 5,000-year-old artifacts discovered at ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

Thousands of people have tuned into the live stream, which focuses on the northwest rim of the caldera — the cauldron-like area at the top of a volcano. As of Jan. 16, the eruption remains ...

USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists measured lava fountains reaching about 200 feet high. More USGS HVO Kīlauea's eruptions have significant implications for local residents, visitors ...

Axial Seamount, a massive underwater volcano located nearly 300 miles off the Oregon coast, is showing signs of an imminent eruption. This 3,600-foot-tall volcano, which spans 1.25 miles across ...