Taftan volcano in southeastern Iran rose 3.5 inches over 10 months, signaling that it is waking up after 700,000 years of ...

Volcanoes are nature's most dramatic rocks, and while their eruptions can be awe-inspiring, they also pose serious threats to nearby communities and global climates. Scientists vigilantly monitor ...

A Mexican volcano dubbed "civilisation-ending" is showing alarming signs of awakening with rising temperatures, sulphur ...

Researchers have identified 138 candidate subglacial volcanoes hidden beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, 91 of which had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study published by the Geophysical Research Letters journal has found that the volcano’s summit has risen by 3.5in between ...

What appears to be a single volcanic eruption is often the result of complex processes operating deep beneath the surface, ...

While the chance for an eruption is extremely low, the supervolcano is still likely to blame. A 2025 study from the United ...

When referred to as a gas, it means a volatile has transitioned into the vapor phase. The most common gases (or vapor phase volatiles) emitted at the surface are water (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and ...

POPOCATÉPETL VOLCANO, Mexico (AP) — 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 ...

Those are the kinds of questions Chris Newhall has spent the past 30 years or so trying to answer. Newhall, a world-renowned volcano scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey who also teaches at the ...

Fluid inclusions in volcanoes are dominantly composed of carbon dioxide. At magmatic temperatures — 2,192 degrees — the density of the carbon dioxide strongly depends on pressure, which is influenced ...

POPOCATÉPETL VOLCANO, Mexico (AP) — 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 ...