On April 11, 2023, Russia's Shiveluch volcano erupted, sending up vast clouds of dust up to 20 kilometers (12 miles) into the sky, and engulfing nearby villages in ash. This is one of the most active ...

Volcanoes often look deceptively quiet until the moment they unleash towering plumes of ash and gas, yet the precise switch that turns a gentle rumble into a devastating blast has remained stubbornly ...

When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing. Such a collapse ...

Deep below the Pacific, a restless seafloor volcano off Oregon is showing signs it may soon stir again. Axial Seamount, a submarine volcano located nearly a mile beneath the ocean surface, is flexing ...

When the Hunga Tonga volcano erupted underwater in January 2022, it felt like witnessing something unprecedented. The submarine volcano introduced an unprecedented amount of water vapor into the ...