One of the world’s most active volcanoes is back in action.The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is spewing ...

One volcanologist who has spent time studying the volcano said the devastation its eruption would cause would be "complete and incomprehensible." ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Listen to Story Deccan Volcanism linked to dinosaur extinction. Tropical flora thrived post-volcanic activity. Angiosperms flourished in warm, undisturbed climates. Vast eruptions during the Deccan ...

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed ...

Kīlauea volcano at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park resumed eruptions Wednesday with what was described as a small lava flow followed by "low-level continuous lava spattering" and some fountaining ...

The volcano's most recent eruption — from August 2014 through to February 2015 — was the largest outbreak in Iceland for more than 300 years. The eruption began when a large fissure opened up ...

He added that the residents who chose to stay argued they were used to Mount Ibu's eruptions. As of Thursday morning, 517 residents from the village closest to the volcano had been evacuated.

Episode 4 of the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption began on Jan. 15, 2025. Lava fountains resumed erupting from the two vents that have been active in the eruption that began within Halemaʻumaʻu at the ...

The north cone that was active during the recent eruption is in the center of the image, and lava glowing from within the vent is visible. The south vent is out of the frame, but a small lava flow ...

But it has been more active in the last 30 years, erupting three times, with the most recent eruption in 2015. Chadwick and his colleagues have an advantage in studying Axial Seamount. A 300-mile-long ...