Hawaii's Kilauea volcano produces significant volcanic gas during the latest eruption. Officials are monitoring air quality ...

Studying tree rings helped scientists pinpoint when Mount Rainier last sent a lahar down its steep slopes, which could help ...

January 2026The international APARC report on the Hunga volcanic eruption in 2022 provides new insights into the extent to ...

Located in the United States, one of the world's largest volcanoes is gearing up to explode. It's known as the Yellowstone ...

State volcanologists raised Mayon Volcano’s alert status to Alert Level 3 on Tuesday, January 6, 2026, after the collapse of a growing lava dome triggered dangerous pyroclastic density currents, or ...

A crater glow, locally known as “banaag,” was observed at the summit of Mayon Volcano on Wednesday evening, according to PHIVOLCS. In an advisory, PHIVOLCS said that the crater glow was spotted ...

The ongoing unrest of Mayon Volcano may lead to lava flows and lava fountaining in the coming days, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS). ​The country’s most ...

In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world's most active and whose eruption could affect millions of people. Its mission: figure ...

Following the eruption, one team had an idea to help recover from the devastation: send gophers on a day trip.

Scientists are flocking to Iceland to investigate an increasingly crucial question: Will melting glaciers accelerate and intensify earthquakes and volcanic eruptions? William Brangham reports. PBS ...

The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia left a huge crater, along with a sometimes unexpected legacy. Jialiang Gao, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons On April 10, 1815, the Tambora volcano ...