A large sulfur dioxide gas cloud is blowing toward Keflavík International Airport. Authorities have told people nearby to ...

Evacuations were reported in the Icelandic village of Grindavik and at the Blue Lagoon, a popular tourist destination on the ...

A volcanic fissure that opened up in Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula expanded on Thursday after an eruption forced the ...

Samples of extremely small crystal clots, each polished to the thickness of a human hair or thinner, have revealed ...

Mount Rainier is an active stratovolcano 45 miles southeast of Tacoma and 60 miles south-southeast of Seattle. Its last ...

Iceland, often referred to as the land of ice and fire, has recorded a dozen volcanic eruptions since geological systems on ...

For centuries, glaciers have sat like frosty crowns atop slumbering volcanoes, keeping Earth’s fury tucked safely beneath ...

Wherever you are in Portland, there’s a good chance you’re standing on a volcano. Much of Southeast Portland is part of the Boring Lava Field, an extinct volcanic area pockmarked with the remnants of ...

If you’ve been following the ongoing episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island, you might have seen the ...

Learn more about the connection between melting glaciers and volcanic eruptions, a volatile relationship that has existed ...

Essentially, gas pistoning is a shallow, degassing-driven rise and fall of a lava surface. Often these pistons occur in ...