THERE are around 1,500 volcanoes on land which have been active in the last 10,000 years spewing ash into the atmosphere periodically. As about 50 to 60 volcanic eruptions happen each month we’ve ...

Dr Jessica Johnson spent two years on a research fellowship at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, focused on the island's most active volcano, Kilauea AS Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano continues to release ...

NEW ENGLAND could be under threat from a brewing super volcano, according to geologists who have detected molten rock rising from the normally dormant area. How is a super volcano formed? A new ...

Newsweek has highlighted “a volcano beneath Bermuda that formed in a way that has never been seen before,” with researchers “analyzing a now dormant volcano beneath the Atlantic Ocean that was ...

A newly discovered underwater volcano shows that the Hawaiian island of O'ahu was formed by three major shield volcanoes, not two as was widely believed. An international team of scientists led by the ...

September 14, 2014: A plane flies over the Bardarbunga volcano in southeast Iceland as it spews lava and smoke Bernard Meric/AFP The 2014 eruption of Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano was the biggest seen ...

From picturesque lake filled calderas to explosive rocky mountains, volcanoes are some of the most incredible yet deadly geological features on Earth. With the help of Volcano by Robert J. Ford, here ...

Researchers have found an unusual glimpse of the beginning of Earth deep in a Samoan volcano. Known as hotspots, volcanic island chains such as Samoa can have ancient primordial signatures from the ...

An undersea volcanic eruption created a new island in the Pacific Ocean, to the far south of Tokyo, Japan’s coast guard said on Thursday. Coast guard footage shot on Wednesday showed heavy black smoke ...

AS Hawaii's Kilauea volcano continues to release lava following two weeks of violent eruptions, now is a good a time as any to explore the science behind the rocky magma-spewers. And we've gathered ...