First off, a big thank you to James Reynolds who took questions from my Volcanoes class here at Denison today. It was a great chat with the students! Now, we have news from the volcanic front, some of ...

View of the 'Grand Prismatic' hot spring with its unique colors caused by brown, orange and yellow algae-like bacteria called Thermophiles, which thrive in the cooling water turning the vivid ...

Beneath the surface of the picturesque Yellowstone National Park, filled with an abundance of geysers and hot springs, lies an enormous magma chamber. According to an analysis of earthquake data eight ...

Supervolcanoes destroy everything in their path through dense flowing rivers of hot ash and gas, not fast-moving sandstorm-style flows, researchers have said. By studying past eruptions at ...

The Yellowstone volcano has erupted three times in history – 2.1 million years ago, 1.2 million years ago and 640,000 years ago. Scientists have previously revealed that, should an earthquake occur, ...

Slumbering five miles beneath the surface of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is a timebomb more than 640,000 years in the making. The Yellowstone supervolcano is a vast reservoir of magma with ...

Pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) represent some of the most formidable and complex volcanic phenomena, characterised by a turbulent mixture of solid particles and gases that surge down slopes at ...

This photo shows the exposure of the Mount Jackson Rhyolite Series vitrophyre at Gibbon River. Boulders of weathered, lichen-covered rock show how easy it is to overlook these new units. (Photo by Liv ...

Some other bits of news from around volcano world (that doesn't have to do with Japan). Eruptions readers have sent me a pile of leads/articles over the last week and I'm slowing catching up with that ...