Volcanic eruptions are known for their spectacular visual displays of vivid lava, as well as the devastating impacts they can ...

Deep beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera, a massive magma reservoir is refilling 7,300 years after one of the most powerful ...

For decades, volcanologists have compared their craft to weather forecasting stuck in the 1950s: plenty of instruments, not nearly enough certainty. That gap is narrowing faster than most people ...

A new inventory of 463 explosive eruptions from 1750 to 2023, built for the CMIP7 climate model intercomparison, combines ...

A Yellowstone super-eruption would begin not with a sudden surprise, but with weeks of increasingly alarming warning signs such as migrating earthquake swarms, rapid ground uplift, changing geysers, ...

A lunar model suggests Earth’s tidal pull could concentrate heat near the Moon’s core, offering a possible clue to its ...

Volcanoes have cast a shadow over climate and history. Cold spurts after eruptions may have spurred famine, disease, revolts ...

Population models suggest the Kikai-Akahoya eruption brought severe regional decline alongside continued growth on some northern coastlines. Southern Kyushu was already undergoing demographic and ...

Around 631,000 years ago—a geological blink of an eye—catastrophe unfolded in what is now northwestern Wyoming, U.S. During what is thought to have been a series of immense volcanic eruptions, life ...