On the flanks of Washington State Mount Rainier, a spike in seismic rumbling has revived an old, unsettling question for the ...

Few volcanoes on Earth pose as much of a potential threat to human life as Taal in the Philippines. It's a caldera volcano that last erupted in 1977 and which has over 24 million people living within ...

Can a volcano erupt after tens of thousands of years of dormancy? If so, how can this be explained and what makes volcanic eruptions more dangerous, i.e. explosive? These are key questions in volcanic ...

The evacuation zone in Iceland is “still dangerous”, a civil protection official has told The Independent, with current conditions leaving just a few minutes’ warning of a feared volcano eruption. A ...

Gas emissions, earthquakes and ground deformations at Mount Spurr, an Alaskan volcano roughly 80 miles northwest of Anchorage, indicate that it is “progressing toward an eruption,” scientists said ...

An Italian "supervolcano" could plunge the Earth into a global winter as scientists predict it could soon erupt for the first time since 1538, as detailed in a new study. The crust of the Campi ...

The Foreign Office has issued updated travel advice after a highly active volcano exploded, sending an ash plume miles into the sky. Mount Kanlaon is one of the most active volcanoes in the ...

Thousands of earthquakes have been recorded close to the volcano over the past few weeks - but magma continues to bubble close to the earth's surface. Iceland's authorities fear the Fagradalsfjall ...

From Vesuvius to Laki, we've seen some monstrous eruptions of volcanoes throughout history. Most of these volcanoes are ...

Scientists at The University of Manchester have effectively simulated how bubbles grow in volcanic magma thanks to a novel pressure vessel that can mimic the eruption process in a laboratory setting.