Discover the amazing science behind volcanic eruptions in this fun and easy-to-understand educational video for kids and ...

Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava ...

A new international study has found that Indigenous oral traditions, some thousands of years old, hold valuable and often ...

A gigantic underwater volcano became a massive chemistry experiment that could help researchers quantify the success of tactics designed to tackle climate change. In January 2022, the Hunga ...

What is a super eruption and how did they create the geology of Yellowstone? Where is the world's largest, most explosive, and most unusual volcano? It's Yellowstone National Park. The Yellowstone ...

Several hundred volcanoes lie dormant beneath the Eifel in western Germany. They are typical examples of what is known as distributed volcanic fields. To better understand their formation and activity ...

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The infamous Black Death—a pandemic that killed as many as one third to one half of Europeans within just a few years—may have been aided in its devastation by an unknown volcanic eruption. Martin ...

Is a massive volcanic eruption about to wipe central Oregon off the map? If you spend much time on social media, you might have seen some popular videos claiming that’s exactly what’s about to happen.

When the Black Death swept through Europe beginning in 1347, the plague wiped out more than half of the continent’s population, upending societies and interrupting wars. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea—one of Earth’s most active volcanoes—is bringing the drama. On December 6 lava fountains in the Halema‘uma‘u crater at the shield volcano’s summit spewed more than 1,000 feet into the ...