On Italy's island of Sicily, Mount Etna has spewed lava almost continuously for thousands of years, threatening inhabitants, ...

At the more explosive end of the scale are Plinian eruptions. These include the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, ...

Mount Etna eruptions are commonly described as ‘Strombolian eruptions’ – though that may not apply to this event ...

A small international team of volcanologists has built a more detailed picture of the Campi Flegrei caldera's internal ...

Carbon dioxide emissions from rising magma is one of the earliest signs that a volcano is waking up, but measuring it ...

Yet, more than Hawaii’s bubbling lava fields or Yellowstone’s sprawling supervolcano, it’s Mount Rainier that has many US volcanologists worried. “Mount Rainier keeps me up at night ...

Alaska's Mount Spurr, an active volcano near the most populated region in the state, is getting even closer to an eruption, according to volcanologists. Scientists at the Alaska Volcano ...

US Geological Survey researchers have tracked elevated earthquake rates beneath the summit, including over 100 quakes on Saturday alone. That includes a magnitude 3.7 temblor which was felt in ...

Elevated levels of volcanic gas and earthquakes have been recorded at the site. Alaska's Mount Spurr, an active volcano near the most populated region in the state, is getting even closer to an ...

Now, a team of chemists and volcanologists at the University of Oregon have unraveled precisely how moisture affects the buildup of static — and they’ve come up with a simple solution.

Signs of unrest at Mount Spurr -- located in the Aleutian Arc in southern Alaska about 75 miles west of Anchorage -- have increased over the past 10 months, according to volcanologists at the U.S ...

A team of chemists and volcanologists at the University of Oregon are researching how moisture affects the buildup of static charge when grinding coffee. It turns out, adding a spritz of water to ...