After Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, experts were faced with a precarious question: How can we best prepare for when—not if—the next volcanic eruption in the Cascade Range occurs? Triggered by a ...

Across the Atlantic, a volcano could be threatening to wreak devastation on the US. But the danger doesn’t lie with the volcanic gases, ash clouds or molten lava spewing out from a future eruption.

The 'Mouth of Hell' volcano may be waking up, scientists have warned.

In 2022, the eruption and collapse of an underwater volcano in Tonga caused a devastating tsunami that killed four people, disrupted seafloor ecosystems and damaged critical seafloor ...

Volcanoes emit smoke. Beneath a volcano lies a huge chamber filled with liquid magma. A series of earthquakes means an eruption is imminent. And if a "supervolcano" like Yellowstone were to awaken, a ...

Learn how an eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano would affect North America, and why one isn't likely to happen in the foreseeable future. Millions of people visit Yellowstone National Park each ...

Around 631,000 years ago — a geological blink of an eye — catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US. During what is thought to have been a series of immense volcanic eruptions, ...

When a massive environmental disaster strikes, do societies simply collapse and disappear? Or do people find a way to adapt, ...

Erupting or silent, volcanoes have always captured our imagination. As volcanologists, we have seen how that fascination can collide with rolling news coverage and social media, amplifying false ...

The Kikai-Akahoya eruption did not produce one uniform human outcome across prehistoric Japan. A new study finds that populations collapsed near the volcano while others expanded, revealing how ...

An active submarine volcano south of Hawaiʻi Island shook with its most energetic seismic sequence in years this week, reaching at least magnitude 5.2 — while the scientists watching it did so ...