Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

Solar geoengineering, if weaponised, has the potential to deepen global inequality and escalate conflicts worldwide.

Credit: NASA Expedition 20 crew / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In the remote archipelago of the Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia), Mount Tambora, an imposing stratovolcano that before 1815 reached ...

The Axial Seamount—a volcano located 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and a mile underwater—is slowly showing signs of an impending eruption. Although less well-known that other volcanic giants of ...

It was larger than any volcanic eruption in the previous 28 million years and hundreds to thousands of times larger than later eruptions such as Tambora, Krakatau, and Mount Saint Helens.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most deadly volcanic events in history. Now, scientists have revealed a minute-by-minute account of how the devastation unfolded.

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano began a new series of eruptions in December 2024. The world's most active volcano, located in Kilauea, Hawaii, resumed its latest eruption on Wednesday. Volcanic activity ...

Scientists warn the next massive volcanic eruption is not a matter of if, but when—and the world is woefully unprepared. Drawing parallels to the catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815, ...

MANILA, Philippines — Taal Volcano erupted in a minor phreatic event early Wednesday morning, January 22. It’s the third eruption from the volcano this year, Phivolcs reported. Two weeks after ...

MANILA, Philippines — Taal Volcano in Batangas had a phreatic eruption Wednesday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported. In its latest update ...

Around 201 million years ago, incredible volcanic outpourings in the supercontinent Pangaea shook up life on Earth and gave early dinosaurs a chance to thrive. Paleontologists have known something ...

Some 69 of these eruptions were larger than the Mount Tambora eruption of 1815 in Indonesia ... but like many devastating moments in Earth history, volcanoes may be be partly to blame.