Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...

Other recent eruptions have mostly been audible and not visible, because they happened either at night or when the camera was ...

Kilauea’s Halema‘uma‘u crater, with a style of activity not seen for nearly 40 years. The eruption, characterized by high ...

PURACE, Colombia -- Oliverio Quira often goes to check on his cattle on a plot of land he owns less than a mile from the ...

A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...

A muddy eruption at Yellowstone National Park was just captured on camera in an area that has been closed to the public for ...

New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried imported grain to fill the gap came plague-carrying fleas.

Volcano Alert Level: Watch. Kīlauea has erupted episodically since Dec. 23, 2024, within the summit caldera located within ...

A volcanic eruption may have triggered “the largest known plague pandemic in human history,” according to a new study about ...

Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...

The eruption lasted for just over 12 hours. Kīlauea spewed more than 3 billion gallons (16 million cubic yards) of lava during this event—enough to fill 25,000 Olympic swimming pools. The eruptive ...

An underwater volcano in the Pacific is ramping up activity, with rising seafloor levels signaling an impending eruption.