This video captured the swirling wind vortexes that formed on the very first day of the eruption at Halemaʻumaʻu Crater on June 7, 2023. Generated by the extreme heat rising from the newly opened vent ...

The Hunga Tonga volcano eruption was one of the most powerful volcanic events in recent history, and it completely destroyed both the volcano itself and the island it once formed. This video provides ...

The 1883 Krakatoa volcano erupted with a force of 200 megatons of TNT. By comparison, the bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 had a force of 20 kilotons, or nearly 10,000 times ...

A new UCLA-led study shows that the 2022 eruption of underwater volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai did not warm the planet as was expected but actually reduced temperatures over the Southern Hemisphere ...

Dormant for over two centuries before roaring back to life in 1991, India's only active volcano in the Barren Island erupted ...

The eruption triggered mudslides, an explosion, and plumes of ash that did enormous damage. The death of 57 people led to large changes in how the US monitors and prepares for eruptions. On May 18, ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been repeatedly disgorging lava at its summit crater about once a week since late last year. The firehose of molten rock delights residents, visitors and online ...

Each mineral in a volcanic deposit is like a microscopic thermometer that records magma chamber temperature over time.

It's concerning enough that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica—including the infamous Doomsday Glacier—are melting at an accelerated rate, causing the ocean's great "conveyor belt" to pump the ...