Seeing a volcano with my own eyes is a total bucket list dream, but seeing a volcano that's experiencing active volcanic ...

Studying tree rings helped scientists pinpoint when Mount Rainier last sent a lahar down its steep slopes, which could help ...

The volcanic hot spot is larger than Lake Superior, spewing eruptions six times the total energy of all of the world's power plants.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lava erupts from the crater of a volcano near the mountain Litli-Hrutur, about 40 kilometres southwest of Reykjavik. Iceland's ...

In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world's most active and whose eruption could affect millions of people. Its mission: figure ...

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It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about when the Beemerville Volcano erupted in Wantage, give or ...

The Mongol Empire, once the largest contiguous land empire in history, began to fragment in the 1260s. Traditional explanations for its dissolution focus on internal strife following the death of ...

In this 1893 photo, a man stands inside a "spiracle" in Iceland. With just his head popping out, it looks as if a random head has sprouted from a rock formation. The photo comes from the collection of ...

The mystery location of a giant volcanic eruption that occurred almost 500 years ago has (in part) been solved thanks to glass shards preserved in the ice covering Antarctica. In 1458 a volcano ...

An earlier version of this story was published in 2024. It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about ...