This year, the Earth’s core put on a show unlike any other, with volcanic eruptions that dazzled observers from every continent. Some of these eruptions were so breathtaking they left viewers ...

When massive volcanic eruptions occur, they inject millions of tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, where it forms sulfate aerosols that scatter incoming solar radiation and result in global ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active volcanoes Sally Sennert Did you know that there are between 40 and 50 volcanoes ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display of molten rock since ...

Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to study life’s earliest stages. Researchers traced the genetic origins of an ...

Extreme drought, rather than a planetary winter, might be humanity’s biggest challenge in the years after a huge volcanic eruption 1. Global temperatures can plummet after a large eruption, if the ...

Forecasting volcanic eruptions in time to alert authorities and populations remains a major global challenge. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers and engineers from the Institut ...