Italy's most active volcano erupted, prompting scientists to issue a red Volcano Observatory notice for aviation, signalling ...

A rare underwater eruption at Hunga Tonga sent water vapor into Earth’s atmosphere, cooling the stratosphere and reshaping ...

1959 Kīlauea Iki eruption: It happened in the crater just north of the volcano’s caldera, lasting only about a month with 17 ...

The Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia's Afar region erupted on Sunday for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending thick ...

A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas carrying the bubonic plague.

Viewers watching the US Geological Survey’s livestream of the latest eruption of Kīlauea on Tuesday evening were surprised to ...

This story was updated on Dec. 24, 2025. A year ago on Dec. 23, 2024, one of the world’s most active volcanoes awoke.   That ...

Volcano Kilauea's puahiohio are swirling columns of ash and volcanic debris, often mistaken for tornadoes but formed by ...

One notable incident came on May 22, 1919, when a barrage of eruptive activity caused a 1,000-kilogram (2,205-pound) block of ...

Often spotted by onlookers in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, or even by YouTube livestream viewers, the long, ashy gray or ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...

A big, messy surprise greeted Yellowstone National Park early Saturday morning, just as winter officially began. At around ...